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mediciner arch. (in early use chiefly Sc.)|mɪˈdɪsɪnə(r), ˈmɛdsɪnər|
Also 6 medycyner, 4 medycinar, 4–7 medicinar, 5 medicinare, 6 medcinar, metsouner. Cf. medicianer.
[f. medicine n.1 or v. + -er1: cf. OF. medecineur.]
1. A physician, ‘medical man’, ‘leech’.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvi. (Baptista) 1071 Þan come diuerse medicinaris nere, for wynninge of his stat to spere. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 138 A medicinare may geve hele till a man that askis it nocht. 1533(title) Pronostycacyon of Mayster John Thybault, medycyner and astronomer of the Emperyall maiestie. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 127 Lord James..quha was hangit be the heillis be the metsouneris to caus the poysone to drop out. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 87 Dr. Gordon, medicinar in Old Aberdeen. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xv, ‘He who lacks strength’, said the wily mediciner, ‘must attain his purpose by skill’. 1873Ruskin Fors Clav. xxxi. 20 How many second-rate mediciners have lived on..prescriptions of bread pills.
2. nonce-uses.
a. Used to translate Gr. ϕαρµακεύς, poisoner, sorcerer.
b. Used for medicine man.
1845J. H. Newman Ess. Development iv. §1. 224 ‘Wizard, mediciner, cheat, rogue, conjurer’, were the epithets applied to him by the opponents of Eusebius. Ibid. 225 St. Anastasia was thrown into prison as a mediciner. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 271 His forehead is adorned with the two little antelope-horns worn by sultans and mediciners. |