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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Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery....
From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by Hazlitt, William Carew
We try also all poisons, and other medicines upon them, as well of chirurgery as physic.
From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint
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)
By all that hath hitherto appeared, her skill in chirurgery lieth chiefly in a quick hand to cut off limbs; but she is the worst at healing of any that ever pretended to it.
From Political Pamphlets by Saintsbury, George
There are physicians in the Islands, who, I believe, all practise chirurgery, and all compound their own medicines.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel
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