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Alternative forms

• chirurgion

Noun

chirurgeon ‎(plural chirurgeons)

1. (archaic) A doctor or surgeon.
   • 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, January 8

     At noon to the 'Change, and there long, and from thence by appointment took Luellin, Mount, and W. Symons, and Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, home to dinner with me and were merry.

   • 1688, Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, The Royal Slave

     All we could do could get no more words from him; and we took care to have him put immediately into a healing bath, to rid him of his pepper, and ordered a chirurgeon to anoint him with healing balm, which he suffered, and in some time he began to be able to walk and eat.

   • 1728, Otway, Thomas, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume 2, London, page 44:

     If I chance to be hang'd, being a luſty Sinewy Fellow, the Corporation of Barber-Chirurgeons, may be, beg me for an Anatomy, to ſet up in their Hall.

   • 1850, William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, & Hablot Knight Browne, Ainsworth's Magazine, p. 481.

     On the following day, Tresham was seized with a sudden illness, and making known his symptoms to Ipgreve, the chirurgeon who attended the prison was sent for, and on seeing him pronounced him dangerously ill, though he was at a loss to explain the nature of his disorder.

   • 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, chapter XXXI

     Noting that there was something amiss, he had hurried down for a skilled chirurgeon, whom he brought out to us under an escort of scythesmen.

   • 1893, Julia Taft Bayne, Molly Webster

     Ye healthful Potions ye Chirurgeon sends from ye gallipots Power out,
     Ye bedd vpheaues, ye homs is shaken, & ye stooles are hvrl'd aboute.

Related terms

• chirurgical
• chirurgie