chirurgeon

American  

[kahy-rur-juhn] / kaɪˈrɜr dʒən /

noun

Archaic.

1. a surgeon.

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chirurgeon British  

/ kaɪˈrɜːdʒən /

noun

1. an archaic word for surgeon

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Other Word Forms

• chirurgery noun

Etymology

Origin of chirurgeon

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

Example Sentences

But in the current American Journal of Surgery, two Cleveland doctors recommend a bloodletting technique so radical and daring that an oldtime chirurgeon would have paled at the thought of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

But these are just the men who turn up their noses at all that I have industriously produced, and say contemptuously, 'Do look, here's our chirurgeon wants to be a painter!'

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Nor knew I ever a chirurgeon to use the probe without hurting of his patient.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah

Saying this, he stepped aside with the two men, one of whom was the chirurgeon, and the other the tormentor, while Dame Ipgreve helped to take off Viviana's gown.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

“I will soon test the truth of his assertion,” observed the chirurgeon, taking a small flat piece of the purest gold from his doublet.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison