Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The appearance of our visitor was a surprise to me, since I had expected a typical country practitioner.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The man is certainly a country practitioner.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— one who practices
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Macmillan
— someone who works in a particular profession, especially medicine or law
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Other Word Forms
practitioners
Usage
6 uses of ‘practitioner’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle