Chirurgeon
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A doctor or surgeon. archaic, historical
"1561, Hieronymus Brunschwig trans. Jhon Hollybush[sic] (pseudonym of Miles Coverdale), A most excellent and perfecte homily apothecarye.... Arnold Birckman, Collen (Cologne). Page 6 verso, section Of One That Hath the Palsye Let every Physicton or Chirurgeon therefore rule him after this, and well and exactly knowe, and searche the cause of the Disease, that he may more certaynly knowe how to heale the patient."
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More examples"1561, Hieronymus Brunschwig trans. Jhon Hollybush[sic] (pseudonym of Miles Coverdale), A most excellent and perfecte homily apothecarye.... Arnold Birckman, Collen (Cologne). Page 6 verso, section Of One That Hath the Palsye Let every Physicton or Chirurgeon therefore rule him after this, and well and exactly knowe, and searche the cause of the Disease, that he may more certaynly knowe how to heale the patient."
Etymology
From Middle English cirurgien, borrowed from Old French cirurgiien, itself borrowed from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus or formed from the root of cirurgie, borrowed from Latin chirurgia, ultimately from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós). Doublet of surgeon.
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