chirurgery
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- chirurgic adjective
- chirurgical adjective
Etymology
Origin of chirurgery
1350–1400; chirurg(eon) + -ery; replacing Middle English sirurgerie < Middle French cirurgerie < Latin chīrūrg ( ia ) (< Greek cheirourgía; chirurgeon, -ia ) + Old French -erie -ery
Example Sentences
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The good clerk also made shoes, shaved and clipped hair, and practised chirurgery also in the worming of dogs.
From The Parish Clerk by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
In that day his fame rested chiefly on his books in physic and chirurgery.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
The garden and beehive are all her physic and chirurgery, and she lives the longer for it.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
We try also all poisons and other medicines upon them, as well of chirurgery, as physic.
From New Atlantis by Bacon, Francis
No, sir, we don’t want Master Pawson with us; let him study his chirurgery and sewing of cuts, and stopping up bullet-holes.
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by Fenn, George Manville
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