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arithmetician

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˌɹɪθməˈtɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

Etymology: From Middle French arithmeticien; equivalent to arithmetic + -ian.

  1. 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, [...]”

    “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.”