osteopath
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of osteopath
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; back formation from osteopathy
Vocabulary lists containing osteopath
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He invited his boyhood friend and schoolmate, Osteopath Thomas O. Maxfield, 27, of Maplewood, to come to his office and remove Walter's tonsils.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week in Manhattan, Osteopath Perrin Thacher Wilson of Cambridge, Mass., reported that for 35 years he has cured facial neuralgia by repositioning the mandibular joints.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most recently it was the case of Ohio Osteopath Dr. Sam Sheppard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Called to the home of Louis Faulkner, in the tiny town of Idabel, Okla., last week, young Osteopath George Kenneth Fisher found Charles and Larrie, the four-month-old Faulkner twins, choking from whooping cough.
From Time Magazine Archive
An Osteopath feels bad to have to hunt cause for diseases, and not know how to start out to find the mechanical cause.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
