chirurgeon

• chirurgian, chirurgion, chyrurgeon

From Middle English cirurgien, borrowed from Old French cirurgiien, itself borrowed from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus or formed from the root of cirurgie, borrowed from Latin chirurgia, ultimately from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós). More at surgeon, surgery.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kaɪ.ˈɹɜːdʒən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒən

chirurgeon (plural chirurgeons)

1. (archaic) A doctor or surgeon.
   • 1561, Hieronymus Brunschwig trans. Jhon Hollybush[sic] (pseudonym of Miles Coverdale), A most excellent and perfecte homily apothecarye.... Arnold Birckman, Collen (Cologne). Page 6 verso, section Of One That Hath the Palsye

     Let every Physicton or Chirurgeon therefore rule him after this, and well and exactly knowe, and searche the cause of the Disease, that he may more certaynly knowe how to heale the patient.

   • 1664 January 18 (date written; Gregorian calendar)​, Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 8th, 1663–1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:

     At noon to the 'Change, and there long, and from thence by appointment took Luellin, Mount, and W. Symons, and Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, home to dinner with me and were merry.

   • 1688, A[phra] Behn, Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave. A True History, London: […] Will[iam] Canning, […], →OCLC, pages 213–214:

     All we cou'd do cou'd get no more Words from him; and we took care to have him put immediately into a healing Bath, to rid him of his Pepper; and order'd a Chirurgeon to anoint him with healing Balm, which he ſuffer'd, and in ſome time he began to be able to Walk and Eat; […]

   • 1728, Otway, Thomas, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway‎, volume 2, London, page 44:

     If I chance to be hang'd, being a luſty Sinewy Fellow, the Corporation of Barber-Chirurgeons, may be, beg me for an Anatomy, to ſet up in their Hall.

   • 1850, William Harrison Ainsworth; George Cruikshank; Hablot Knight Browne, Ainsworth's Magazine‎, page 481:

     On the following day, Tresham was seized with a sudden illness, and making known his symptoms to Ipgreve, the chirurgeon who attended the prison was sent for, and on seeing him pronounced him dangerously ill, though he was at a loss to explain the nature of his disorder.

   • 1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XXXI, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC:

     Noting that there was something amiss, he had hurried down for a skilled chirurgeon, whom he brought out to us under an escort of scythesmen.

   • 1893, Julia Taft Bayne, Molly Webster:

     Ye healthful Potions ye Chirurgeon sends from ye gallipots Power out,
     Ye bedd vpheaues, ye homs is shaken, & ye stooles are hvrl'd aboute.

   • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part II, Chapter First, page 56

     And when he had come there the King's chirurgeon presently attended upon him - albeit his wounds were of such a sort he might not hope to live for a very long while.

• chirurgical
• chirurgery, chirurgie