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• n  a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses
• n  a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye

• Sir Richard Robert Cruise, oculist to His Majesty George V; from Lady Margery Barbara Cruise.
• Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist.
• Cerra went to an oculist: he told her she would never see again.

• optometrist
• ophthalmologist
• eye doctor

Quotes

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• EM Forster in Washington Post
  In the pursuit of those subtleties, James created privileged observers whom he came to call "reflectors," who see the action -- as EM Forster joked -- "through lenses procured from a rather too first-class oculist."