[a. Fr. académicien, f. med.L. acadēmic-us: see -IAN.]
1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting arts and sciences; first used of the members of the French Academies, and in England of the Royal Academy; now much more widely. It has taken the place of ACADEMIST.
[Not in Bailey, 1766.]
1755. Johnson, Plan of Dict., Wks. 1787, IX. 169. The academicians of France rejected terms of science in their first essay.
1818. J. Northcote, Sir J. Reynolds, II. 146. Invective and satire against the principal Academicians, and most pointedly against Sir Joshua.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. II. xxix. 119. The Academicians described derangements in some of the buildings of Calabria.
2. A collegian; = ACADEMIC B 2. rare.
1749. Chesterfield, Lett., 196 (1792), II. 237. As for Turin … you cannot conveniently reside there as an academician.
1873. C. A. Bristeds, Five Yrs. in Eng. Univ. (ed. 3), 34. The ignorance of the popular mind has often represented academicians riding, travelling, etc. in cap and gown.
