Forms: 4 logissian, 4–6 logicien, 5 -icion, -ycien, 6 -ecien, -yssion, 6–7 -itian, 6– logician. [a. F. logicien (13th c.), f. logique LOGIC: see -ICIAN.]
1. A writer on logic; a student of logic.
1382. Wyclif, Pref. Ep., 66. I holde my pees of gramariens and retorikis, filoferis, geometrers, logissians [1388 logiciens].
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), III. 219. Thei be logiciones ȝiffenge reason of either thynge as Plato was and his folowers.
1474. Caxton, Chesse, 100. Gramariens, logyciens, maysters of lawe.
1530. Palsgr., 50. If they be suche as the logiciens call abstractes.
1660. R. Coke, Justice Vind., 18. Logicians make three necessary parts or terms in every proposition.
1736. Butler, Anal., I. iii. 78. Contradictory, as the logicians speak, to virtue.
1827. Whately, Logic, I. § 1 (ed. 2), 22. The logician’s object being not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason.
1876. Jevons, Logic Prim., 7. All people are logicians in some manner or degree.
2. One skilled in reasoning.
1592. Greene, Disput., 15. Thou art no Logitian, thou canst not reason for thy selfe.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlem. (1641), 72. Then wee had not … a subtill Scotus to play the Logician.
