[f. ÆSTHETICS + -IAN after mathematics, mathematician, etc.] One skilled in or devoted to æsthetics; a professor of taste.

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1845.  Blackw. Mag., LVII. 613. The aesthetician has to lay aside nearly all terms of reprobation, in alluding to the habiliments of ladies of the present day.

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1874.  Sully, Sensat. & Intuit., 366. Æstheticians in their love of simplicity have persisted in forcing all forms of Art under this one Conception.

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