In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
PRACTITIONER
practitioner, practician
(noun) someone who practices a learned profession
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
practitioner (plural practitioners)
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(dated) A sly or artful person.
Source: Wiktionary
Prac*ti"tion*er, n. Etym: [From Practician.]
1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. Crabbe.
2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
3. A sly or artful person. Whitgift. General practitioner. See under General, 2.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”
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