Also 6 -trician, 7 -titian. [a. F. arithméticien (15th c. in Littré), f. L. arithmētica: see ARITHMETIC and -ICIAN.] One who works out arithmetical problems; a proficient in the science of numbers.
1557. Recorde, Whetstone, Lij. To proue the cunnyng of a braggyng Arithmetician.
1571. Digges, Geom. Pract., IV. xxii. Dd ij b. The skilfull Arithmetrician.
1608. T. James, Apol. Wickliffe, 74. You may know them to bee cunning Arithmetitians.
1792. A. Young, Trav. France, 464. Useful data for political arithmeticians.
1869. Lubbock, Preh. Times, xiv. 502. They are such bad arithmeticians that the enumeration of ten is a labour … with many of them.
