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chirurgeon

[ kahy-rur-juhn ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. a surgeon.


chirurgeon

/ kaɪˈrɜːdʒən /

noun

  1. an archaic word for surgeon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • chiˈrurgery, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chirurgeon1

1250–1300; < Latin chīrūr ( gus ) (< Greek cheirourgós hand-worker, surgeon; chiro-, demiurge ) + (sur)geon; replacing Middle English cirurgian < Old French cirurgien; surgeon
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chirurgeon1

C13: from Old French cirurgeon
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Example Sentences

The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice, has 2 million readers and is a reliable source of all things surgical and grisly.

Stir, man, and take horse to Cardoyle for the chirurgeon.”

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris created The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, a blog about the history of surgery which allows her to merge her academic interests with a desire to reach a wider public.

In Evelyn’s Diary on March 28th, 1684, there is a record of a serious accident, “There was,” he writes, “so great a concourse of people with their children to be touched for the evil, that six or seven were crushed to death by pressing at the chirurgeon’s door for tickets.”

I would require Honesty in every Physician, that he be not over careless or covetous, Harpylike to make a prey of his patient, or, as an hungry Chirurgeon, often produce and wire-draw his cure, so long as there is any hope of pay.

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