PRACTISANT NOUN a schemer; a plotter, a conspirator - 1550 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY apparently from practise (vb.) + -ant, originally after Middle French practicien FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1550 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...that they shulde make allyance with thē, for to geue ayde the one to the other, whan yt shulde be nedefull, and for to chose people and capytaynes that shulde haue authorytie for to prouyde in all affayres, to the entente that the enterpryses shulde be secrette, and that the commons specyallye shulde not be aduertysedde of the affayres, whereunto yt shulde be thoughte that they woolde not consente: for there were manye of theyme (sayde the sayde practisans of Corynthe) whyche for the hatredde that they haue agaynste the Lacedemonyans woulde reallye themselfe wyth the sayde Argiues..." From: The Hystory Writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the Warre, whiche was Betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans - Thucydides - Translated out of French by Thomas Nicolls
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