Also 6 tabbacconist, 7 tabaccanist, -onist, tobackonist, -baconist, -bacchonist, -bacconiste. [f. TOBACCO + -IST, with inserted -n-, perh. suggested by such words as Platonist, with etymological n.]
† 1. A person addicted to the use of tobacco; esp. a habitual tobacco-smoker. Obs.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., III. i. It pleases the world (as I am her excellent Tabacconist) to giue me the style of Signior Whiffe.
1615. H. Crooke, Body of Man, 587. We see that cunning Tobacconistes … can driue the smoake out of their mouthes thorough their eare.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 302. Who though a great Tobacconist, never spits in the smoking of ten pipes together.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Smoker, a Tobacconist.
1757. Mrs. Griffith, Lett. Henry & Frances (1767), II. 280. As phlegmatic as a Dutch tobacconist.
2. A seller of or dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
1657. W. Rand, trans. Gassendi’s Life Peiresc, VI. 195. That [the books] might … escape the danger of the Tobacconist and Grocer.
1700. T. Brown, Amusem. Ser. & Com., viii. 112. In the Tobacconist’s Shops Men were sneezing and spawling.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, vii. Mr. Richard Swiveller’s apartments were … over a tobacconist’s shop.
Hence Tobacconistical a., belonging to or characteristic of a tobacconist. Also Tobacconize v., (a) intr. to smoke tobacco; (b) trans. to impregnate with tobacco-smoke.
1839. New Monthly Mag., LVII. 118. Submitting this *tobacconistical list to the snuff-taking public.
1851. G. Trask, in The Liberator, 26 Dec., 4/5. Let no man who is narcotized, *tobacconized, and sensualized by its use, call this an insignificant cause, unworthy attention.
1876. Blackmore, Cripps, III. xiii. 204. In picturesque attitudes of tobacconizing.
1884. American, VIII. 73. The necessity of enduring a tobacconized atmosphere.
