practisant

plural practisants

1. One who practises something; a practitioner.

   A Pope who asked you the hour and the date and the place of your birth, drew diagrams on paper, and then told you your secret vices and virtues, was a practisant of arts unholy

   1904, Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh

2. obsoleteAn agent or confederate in treachery.

   Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.

   1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]