Now rare. Also 7 -itian. [f. L. theologic-us THEOLOGIC + -IAN: see -ICIAN.] = THEOLOGIAN.
c. 1560. in 500 Yrs. Chaucer Criticisms (Chaucer Soc.), 95. Geffery Chaucer … was a sharpe Logician, a sweete Rhetorician, a pure Poett, a graue Philosopher, and a sacred theologician.
1647. W. Browne, trans. Polexander, I. III. 60. Though I am a weake Theologitian I dare assure my selfe [etc.].
1757. Mrs. Griffith, Lett. Henry & Frances (1767), II. 110. The same error … which theologicians attribute to the heathen Romans.
1898. Adamson, Life J. Morison, xv. 171. Mr. Meikle was pre-eminently the theologician of the group.
