chirurgeon

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  • The Roman leech and chirurgeon were often slaves; so, too, the preceptor and the pedagogue, the reader and the player, the clerk and the amanuensis, the singer, the dancer, the wrestler, and the buffoon, the architect, the smith, the weaver, and the shoemaker; even the armiger or squire was a slave. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • My friend Candido said Prince Benedicte sent his own Eisandine chirurgeon, who gave her a purge that likely saved her, though she's been sickly ever since. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • "Fetch a chirurgeon," she ordered him in crisp Caerdicci. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • It bespoke something much more terrible than he had understood had happened on that hill, and the man sat there, trembling in deep shock, trying stolidly to deal with what a chirurgeon or a priest should attend. —  Cherryh,_C.J._-_Exiles_Gate.htm
  • “Why does no one call for a chirurgeon He has been cut,” the attendant replied, “and does not wish to live.” His eyes glittered feverishly, and I knew by his accent he was Akkadian—that was when I began to understand, then, at least a little. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
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  1. Middle English cirurgien, from Old French, from Latin chīrurgia, surgery; see surgery.

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  1. This word, in early modern English also chirurgion, now made to conform, as to its first syllable, in spelling with the modern F. chirurgien, and in spelling and pronunciation with modern English words (as chirography, etc.) having the same ult. Greek element chir-, would be reg. *cirurgeon (pron. si-rėr′jo̤n), from Middle English cirurgien, cirurgian, sirurgien (once miswritten corurgien), from Old French cirurgien, modern F. (conforming with the L. spelling) chirurgien = Provencal cirurgien (after F.) = Spanish cirujano = Portuguese cirurgião, from Middle Latin as if *chirurgianus, *cirurgianus (with suffix -anus: see -an, -eon), equivalent to the common Middle Latin chirurgicus, cirurgicus (later Italian cirugico, ciroico (Florio, Veneroni), a surgeon, now only adjective, chirurgico: see chirurgic), a chirurgeon, surgeon, prop, adjective, from Late Latin chirurgicus, adjective (from Greek χειρουργικός), surgical (see chirurgic), from Latin chirurgus, Middle Latin also cirurgus, a chirurgeon, surgeon, from Greek χειρουργός, a chirurgeon, surgeon, an operating medical man, prop, adjective, working or doing by hand, practising a handicraft, from χείρ, the hand, + ἒργον, work, *ἒργειν, v., work, = English work, q. v. The Middle English cirurgien, sirurgien, was more common in the contracted form surgien, surgen, surjon (Anglo-French cyrogen, sirogen, surigien, etc.), whence the usual modern form surgeon: see surgeon, and cf. chirurgery, surgery, chirurgical, surgical, etc.
 

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