chirurgeon

American  

[kahy-rur-juhn] / kaɪˈrɜr dʒən /

noun

Archaic.

1. a surgeon.

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chirurgeon British  

/ kaɪˈrɜːdʒən /

noun

1. an archaic word for surgeon

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Other Word Forms

• chirurgery noun

Etymology

Origin of chirurgeon

1250–1300; < Latin chīrūr ( gus ) (< Greek cheirourgós hand-worker, surgeon; chiro-, demiurge ) + (sur)geon; replacing Middle English cirurgian < Old French cirurgien; surgeon

Example Sentences

But in the current American Journal of Surgery, two Cleveland doctors recommend a bloodletting technique so radical and daring that an oldtime chirurgeon would have paled at the thought of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

I did all I could for him, but I'm just a chirurgeon, not a practitioner of the Healing Art.

From The Eyes Have It by Garrett, Randall

But these are just the men who turn up their noses at all that I have industriously produced, and say contemptuously, 'Do look, here's our chirurgeon wants to be a painter!'

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Her whole life seems ruined: and Dr Bell, the chirurgeon at Keswick, told Mother but yesterday that Blanche should not live long.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah

The interrogation, therefore, was postponed for a few days, during which the chirurgeon constantly visited her, and by his care, and the restoratives she was compelled to take, she rapidly regained her strength.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison