arithmetician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of arithmetician
1550–60; < Middle French arithmeticien; arithmetic, -ian
Example Sentences
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One high school girl rang up to ask how to divide 182 by 9; her listener, no arithmetician, was stumped.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is why the common arithmetician prefers music to poetry.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
But then the banker, E. Fenzi, who swindled me out of nearly 500 francs, was an arithmetician, and I write under a sense of recent wrong.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Nesselrode.—No psalmist, or engineer, or commissary, or arithmetician, could enumerate the beasts that are harnessed to them, or the fiends that urge them on.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
Of Carlile’s family, I can gather little beyond this, that his father had some reputation as an arithmetician.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob
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