chirurgery

[kahy-rur-juh-ree]

noun

Archaic.

1. surgery.

Other Word Forms

• chirurgic adjective
• chirurgical adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of chirurgery¹

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

I was greeted by A Very Shorte and Compendious Methode of Phisicke and Chirurgery, a 1642 book of cures by Jane Jackson that features recipes to whiten teeth and cure toothache.

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And as the Indian priests expressed an excellent charity, by building Hospitalls and providing chirurgery for birds and beasts lamed by mischance, or age, or labour: so must we, not cut off, but cure these affections, which are the bestiall part.

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He said, "I would therefore that all Chirurgiens should be learned, so would I have no man think himself learned otherwise than chiefly by experience, for learning in Chirurgery consisteth not in speculation only, nor in practice only, but in speculation well practised by experience."

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Such deceivers," continued the old chronicler, "no doubt are many, who being never trained up in reading or practice of physics and Chirurgery do boast to do great cures, especially upon women, as to make them straight that before were crooked, corbed, or crumped in any part of their bodies and other such things.

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Ioyfull newes | out of the new-found | worlde | Wherein are declared the rare and | singuler vertues of diuers Herbs, Trees, | Plantes, Oyles & Stones, with their ap- | plications, as well to the vse of phisicts, as of | chirurgery, which being well applyed bring | a present remedie for al diseases, et may | seeme altogether incredible: Notwith- | standing by practice found out | to be true.

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