rare–1. [f. Gr. τέχνη art, or Eng. TECHN-IC + -ISM; cf. mechanism.] ‘Technicality’ (Webster, 1864). So Technist, one who deals with a subject technically.
1885. Nature, 5 Feb., 314/2. The light of that comet was of the kind familiarly known among technists as ‘the candle-spectrum.’
a. 1892. Walt Whitman, Complete Writings (1902), VI. 197. The tendency permitted to Literature has always been and now is to magnify and intensify its own technism, to isolate itself from general and vulgar life, and to make a caste or order.
