Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Surgery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Surgery.
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- noun archaic
Surgery .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"chirurgery"; so the success of physician Russell's soothing oils came as a pleasant surprise.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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There is no sickness almost but physic provideth a remedy for it; to every sore chirurgery will provide a slave; friendship helps poverty; hope of liberty easeth imprisonment; suit and favour revoke banishment; authority and time wear away reproach: but what physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favour, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience?
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Nay, the art of chirurgery will perish, and all those ingenious instruments that have been invented for the cure of man will lie by useless and insignificant.
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There are physicians in the Islands, who, I believe, all practise chirurgery, and all compound their own medicines.
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We try also all poisons, and other medicines upon them, as well of chirurgery as physic.
The New Atlantis 2002
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Jamestown in order to secure the services of "chirurgian and chirurgery ... [to] cure his hurt."
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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The scheme was, that we should pass for _Carabins_ -- such is the nickname of French students in chirurgery -- and in this quality demand admission.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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"As for that," retorted the man in a sing-song voice, "no one can tell whether a medicine be antidote or poison, unless as leechcraft and chirurgery point out --"
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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Greece, it must be owned, possessed musicians long anterior to Homer: Chiron the Centaur, regarded by the ancients as one of the inventors of medicine, botany, and chirurgery, who, when eighty-eight years of age, formed the constellations for the use of the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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Virginia "seeing there was neither chirurgeon nor chirurgery in the fort to cure his hurt."
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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