different between practitioner vs voodooist

English

Etymology

Formerly practicioner for *practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n??/

Noun

practitioner (plural practitioners)

1. A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
3. (dated) A sly or artful person.
   • c. 1572, John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament

     […] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

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English

Alternative forms

• vodounist

Etymology

From voodoo +? -ist.

Noun

voodooist (plural voodooists)

1. A practitioner or student of voodoo.
   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 26:

     “Voodooists believe that their sorcerers have the power to raise innocent individuals from their graves to sell them as sleaves.”