noun. A practitioner.

noun. One who practises or performs, in distinction from one who theorizes or speculates.

noun. One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

noun. A practitioner; someone who practises a particular profession, especially medicine.

noun. someone who practices a learned profession

"But Philip, as he frequently said, was preeminently a "practician," wherefore he gently covered the girl with his coat, busied himself with the lantern and, for various reasons, sought to create a general atmosphere of commonplace reality."