archpractitioner

English

Alternative forms

arch-practitioner

Etymology

arch- +‎ practitioner

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)tʃ.pɹækˈtɪʃənɚ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹt͡ʃ.pɹækˈtɪʃənɚ/

Noun

archpractitioner (plural archpractitioners)

(rare) A foremost practitioner.
- 1908, Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg, Dares-Studien‎, M. Niemeyer, page 18:
  Um jenes treue Liebe und deren Flatterhaftigkeit zu motivieren, ist er femer zur Umformung des ehrenwerten Diomedes der Ilias "into an archpractitioner of seductive wiles" gezwungen.
- 1991, Liz Trotta, Fighting for Air‎, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 318:
  Sauter and Joyce. If they sounded like a headline act in vaudeville, it was an amusing and telling coincidence, for in many ways they were the archpractitioners of news as low-budget entertainment.
- 1996, South Africa Parliament, National Assembly, Debates of the National Assembly (Hansard), Issue 2‎, Government Printer, page 3191:
  As members of the United Nations, would it be in order for us to say that the archpractitioners of apartheid, which was declared a sin against humanity, are criminals?

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