prescriptionists

Noun

prescriptionist (plural prescriptionists)

1. One who advocates a prescriptionist approach.
   • In a fine essay, Terry Eagleton has argued that rights, for a prescriptionist like Burke, are validated by 'the recounting of a certain narrative'.2005, G. Edwards, Narrative Order, 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution, →ISBN
2. A specialist in preparing medications.
   • The practical prescriptionist is an expert at compatibility, for his daily work brings him continually face to face with the problems of compatibility and incompatibility; and he usually knows more Meteria Medica (not Therapeutics) than all the physicians in his town.1907, The Northwestern Druggist, page 19
3. One who prescribes.
   • In North Carolina, as throughout the Southern Region, all timber management prescriptions are prepared by a certified compartment prescriptionist, a forester, who has completed formal training and has demonstrated proficiency in on-the-job application of standard silvicultural practices.1974, John P Slusher, Thomas M Hinkley, Proceedings, page 61

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