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Definition of Chirurgeon
1. n. A surgeon.
Definition of Chirurgeon
1. Noun. (archaic) A doctor or surgeon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chirurgeon
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chirurgeon
1. An obsolete term for surgeon. Origin: G. Cheirourgos, fr. Cheir, hand, + ergon, work (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirurgeon
Literary usage of Chirurgeon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1876)
"improved as Chief Physician and chirurgeon ... Revived by this Assembly, That
three chirurgeon's mates be ..."
2. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"... RELATION OF THE great sufferings AND strange adventures of HENRY PITMAN,
chirurgeon to the late Duke of ..."
3. Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay by Massachusetts Court of Assistants, John Noble, John Francis Cronin (1901)
"... Henry Butterfield nine pounds sixteen shillings to John Smart nine pounds two
shillings & six pence To wm Lock chirurgeon eleven pounds seven shillings ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"... of his guards of horse twenty-eight years together, and has had the charge of
chief physician and chirurgeon of his armie. ..."
5. Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler (1704)
"... was an Italian chirurgeon that found out a way to repair loft and decay'd ...
chirurgeon ..."
6. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1850)
"I will soon test the truth of his assertion," observed the chirurgeon, ...
You are a dead man," said the chirurgeon to Tresham, as he drew forth the piece ..."
7. Shakespeare's England: Or, Sketches of Our Social History of the Reign of by Walter Thornbury (1856)
"The chirurgeon.—Puritans'Attacks on the Tricks of Trade. — Have we improved ?
IT is difficult to realise Old London, with its walls and gates; its stainless ..."
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