Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A chief physician: a title first given by the Roman emperors to their chief physicians, and now applied on the continent of Europe to the first or body physician of a prince, and to the first physician of some cities; specifically, in Russia, the first imperial physician.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities.
Etymologies
- Latin archiater. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Although Nero appointed the first archiater, the name is not commonly used in Latin until the time of”
“_Andromachus_, the elder, was physician to Nero, and the first archiater.”
“_Andromachus_, the younger, was the son of the first archiater, and was, like his father, physician to Nero.”
“When an _archiater sancti palati_ ceased attendance on the Emperor he took the title of ex-archiater.”
“Mesopotamia, archiater and presbyter (d. 536), at an early date translated the works of Dionysius into Syriac.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“There he pradlifed with fuch reputation and fuccefs, that he foon arrived at the head of his pro - feffion; and in the year 17749 upon the death of M. Senac, he was appointed archiater.”
“_archiater_, which means "chief of the physicians.”
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