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; 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

Like a practised chirurgeon, Drost Peter immediately sought for the wound, and found it deep, but not mortal.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

Sir Walter Manny himself also came frequently to see how fared the forerunner of his arrival, and brought with him his own chirurgeon to attend the two.

From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Master Blackwood, the chirurgeon, tended me with the utmost care, though at the time I feared his remedies more than I did the disorder.

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

No," replied the young man, a deep blush mantling his cheeks, "no, my estimable and worthy sir, I am not in the least a doctor like Signor Splendiano Accoramboni; I am however a chirurgeon.

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