arithmetician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of arithmetician
1550–60; < Middle French arithmeticien; arithmetic, -ian
Example Sentences
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One high school girl rang up to ask how to divide 182 by 9; her listener, no arithmetician, was stumped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nesselrode.—No psalmist, or engineer, or commissary, or arithmetician, could enumerate the beasts that are harnessed to them, or the fiends that urge them on.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
“He is a tolerable classical scholar, sir, and a good arithmetician, Dr Phelps told me—” “That’s good,” interposed the captain.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by Adams, H.C.
The late Bishop Colenso, famous for his disputations on the Old Testament and also as an arithmetician, was greatly beloved among the Zulus.
From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
You are a clever arithmetician, mamma; you do your sums and get your totals nicely.
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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