practisant
noun/ˈpɹæktɪzənt/
Etymology Apparently from practise + -ant; originally modelled on French.
1
One who practises something; a practitioner.
- A Pope who asked you the hour and the date and the place of your birth, drew diagrams on paper, and then told you your secret vices and virtues, was a practisant of arts unholy1904, Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh:
2
Obsolete An agent or confederate in treachery.
- Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]: