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medicaster|ˈmɛdɪkæstə(r)|
Also 8 medicastor.
[a. assumed L. *medicaster (whence also It. medicastro, F. médicastre), f. medicus physician: see medic and -aster.]
A pretender to medical skill; a quack, charlatan. So † mediˈcastra, a female ‘medicaster’.
1602F. Herring Anat. 28 An other Medicastra, a ratling Gossip..commended a Drench. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 244 Andreas Libavius, doth report of a certain Medicaster of his time [etc.]. 1706E. Baynard in Sir J. Floyer Hot & Cold Bath. ii. 393, I could say much more..to the Shame..of this sorry Medicaster. 1835J. M. Wilson Tales of Borders (1857) I. 59 Doctors are quacks and medicasters to us. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quixote I. 337 A queen may be leman to a medicaster. |