Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes up or compounds a medical prescription.
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Examples
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Putting on my prescriptionist finger-wagging schoolmarm hat (dress?)
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But I'm a descriptivist rather than a prescriptionist, and the thing they all have in common -- the only thing that all books I've generally seen categorized/understood as as "urban fantasy" have in common -- is that intersection of (or trangression of) the numinous with (upon) the mundane world.
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvish-- fjm 2007
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Page 233 surgeon or the great prescriptionist - he cannot be great in both - and the great lawyer is rarely great, if ever, as counselor and orator.
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Page 231 prescriptionist for the clinic, and assistant professor of clinical medicine in the absence of
The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama Their Leaders and Their Work 1895
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One morning, after I had been within the inclosure of the prison walls something over five months, the sergeant of the guard within our barrack informed me that he had secured a place for me at the prison hospital, to act in the capacity of prescriptionist; that on the following morning he would come for me, and I must be ready to vacate my barrack.
John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ... 1893
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The great doctor is the great surgeon or the great prescriptionist -- he cannot be great in both -- and the great lawyer is rarely great, if ever, as counselor and orator.
Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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The great doctor is the great surgeon or the great prescriptionist -- he cannot be great in both -- and the great lawyer is rarely great, if ever, as counselor and orator.
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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"It's not spicy like a five-star Thai dish," says chocolate prescriptionist Kristy White.
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I’ll avoid the argument of descriptionist v. prescriptionist linguistics, but, insofar as language has meaning, meaning is found in use – and I did not intend to use the phrase in a derogatory manner.
Is modern motherhood oppressive? « Gender Across Borders 2010
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