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

Nor knew I ever a chirurgeon to use the probe without hurting of his patient.

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

The chirurgeon then found on examination that the blood had burst profusely from his mouth and nostrils, and in a slighter degree from the extremities of his hands and feet.

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

He is a barber and chirurgeon, and lives in the Rue Mortbec.

From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

I would have him call her Chiron, the Centaur's own daughter: a chirurgeon by sire and dam, Apollo's own colt.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert