oculist
Americannoun
Related Words
See eye doctor.
Other Word Forms
- oculistic adjective
Etymology
Origin of oculist
Example Sentences
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A mild-mannered oculist, Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi first met the Pope when he was still Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican's 54-year-old Secretary of State, suffering from eye-strain headaches, which Galeazzi-Lisi relieved.
From Time Magazine Archive
He used to sell them to thrifty persons who, consulting neither oculist nor optician, sought to remedy faulty vision with selections from Kresge counters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyone who paints elephant-nosed women and six-sided guitars, and calls them art, should obviously see an oculist �or a doctor.
From Time Magazine Archive
There Princess Elena consulted her oculist; for, beautiful though she is, she is said to be losing her eyesight.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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