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arithmetitian

arithmetitian is the obsolete form of arithmetician.

Meaning of arithmetician

Noun

arithmetician (plural arithmeticians)

  1. (archaic) One with expertise in arithmetic; a mathematician.
    • [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...

Forms of arithmetitian

pluralarithmetitians

Questions about arithmetitian

What is arithmetitian the obsolete form of?
Arithmetitian is the obsolete form of arithmetician.

Words near arithmetitian in the dictionary

  1. arithmeticity
  2. arithmetico-geometric
  3. arithmetico-harmonic
  4. arithmetics
  5. arithmetike
  6. arithmetitian
  7. arithmetitians
  8. arithmetizable
  9. arithmetization
  10. arithmetizations
  11. arithmetize

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