physician
noun
a person who is legally qualified to practice medicine; doctor of medicine.
physicianly
-
a word derived from
physician.
Example Sentences
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It was significant how he had left his rôle of authorship at home and came physicianly, brisk and competent.
From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Annie Hamilton Donnell
What are you writing? wedgecroft, with his physicianly pre-occupation, can attend, understand, sympathise, without looking up at her. wedgecroft. Never mind.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
He says he ain't sick—not physicianly sick; but he jest don't want to talk an' see folks.
From Dawn by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
Wedgecroft, with his physicianly pre-occupation, can attend, understand, sympathise, without looking up at her.
From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker
