chirurgery
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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
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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 George Manville Fenn
Mais, is it not that there are learned faculties in Paris––men skilled in chirurgery even to the taking off of cataracts and the restoration of sight?
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
In that day his fame rested chiefly on his books in physic and chirurgery.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
The good clerk also made shoes, shaved and clipped hair, and practised chirurgery also in the worming of dogs.
From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
Such an example of the chirurgery that has to do with the altering of the human face had never before been witnessed, for nature had never made those faces.
From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis
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