Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pretender to medical knowledge or skill; an ignorant doctor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A quack.
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- noun a
quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge
Etymologies
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Examples
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One who brags of medicines or salves; a medicaster; a charlatan.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jack of Kent 2009
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One who brags of medicines or salves; a medicaster; a charlatan.
Samuel Johnson on Quackery Jack of Kent 2009
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Mazarin, like a very unskilful physician, did not observe that the vital organs were decayed, nor had he the skill to support them by the chemical preparations of his predecessor; his only remedy was to let blood, which he drew so plentifully that the patient fell into a lethargy, and our medicaster was yet so stupid as to mistake this lethargy for a real state of health.
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The native medicaster, having placed the green leaves on the patient's temples, would be brewing a concoction of emollient simples.
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Mazarin, like a very unskilful physician, did not observe that the vital organs were decayed, nor had he the skill to support them by the chemical preparations of his predecessor; his only remedy was to let blood, which he drew so plentifully that the patient fell into a lethargy, and our medicaster was yet so stupid as to mistake this lethargy for a real state of health.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2 [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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Mazarin, like a very unskilful physician, did not observe that the vital organs were decayed, nor had he the skill to support them by the chemical preparations of his predecessor; his only remedy was to let blood, which he drew so plentifully that the patient fell into a lethargy, and our medicaster was yet so stupid as to mistake this lethargy for a real state of health.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Complete [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
qms commented on the word medicaster
A medicaster courts health disaster
By claiming skills he does not master.
Should a wordy practitioner
Who misleads his listener
Be known far and wide as a lexicaster?
January 20, 2014