Obs. [ad. L. labōrant-em, pr. pple. of labōrāre to LABOUR.] A laboratory workman; chemist’s assistant; a working chemist.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., II. iii. (1848), 105. As I am wont to reverence vulgar Chymists, I then envy’d their Laborants, whose imployment requires them to attend the Fire. Ibid. (1680), Exper. Chem. Princ., I. 39. We caused the Laborant with an iron rod dexterously to stirr the kindled part of the Nitre.
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 203. Glauber … a very Chymist or Laborant, and nothing at all of a clear Philosopher.
