Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The office or post of a surgeon.

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Examples

  • My arm is swelling painfully, in spite of all your goodness, and bitter task of surgeonship.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • You must know (possibly I told you), that immediately after I passed, I put my name down as a candidate for a surgeonship on the books of several of the big steamship lines.

    The Stark Munro Letters 1894

  • My arm is swelling painfully, in spite of all your goodness, and bitter task of surgeonship.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • I told you), that immediately after I passed, I put my name down as a candidate for a surgeonship on the books of several of the big steamship lines.

    The Stark Munro Letters Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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