chirurgery

[ kahy-rur-juh-ree ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. surgery.

Other Words From

• chi·rurgic chi·rurgi·cal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of chirurgery¹

1350–1400; chirurg(eon) + -ery; replacing Middle English sirurgerie < Middle French cirurgerie < Latin chīrūrg ( ia ) (< Greek cheirourgía; chirurgeon, -ia ) + Old French -erie -ery

Example Sentences

The disease of the nation was organic, and not functional, and the rough chirurgery of war was its only remedy.

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This sounds absurd only to those who have not perused the Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery.

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Fats and Unguents never appear in their Chirurgery, when the Skin is once broke.

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These flakes here are an entry to a higher work, and of more things for Chirurgery and Medicine.

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They took him up and conveyed him into a druggist's shop, the master of which practiced chirurgery.

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