malpraxisn.
/ˌmalˈpraksᵻs/, U.S. /ˌmælˈpræksəs/ a. Medical malpractice; an instance of this. (See malpractice n. 1b.)
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malpractice1671
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1860 Year-bk. Med. 1859 (New Sydenham Soc.) 431 A midwife and an accoucheur were accused of malpraxis.
1891 Lancet 3 Oct. 758 Served with a legal process by some scoundrelly man or woman for an alleged malpraxis.
1986 D. W. Winnicott Essays i. 117 I could, of course, tell of cruelty and vindictiveness practised by doctors, but we would find no difficulty here in putting this sort of malpraxis in its place.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > misuse of a liberty, benefit, or trust
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abusera1616
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1866 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance (ed. 3) II. ii. iii. 594 Such malpraxis as amounts to a denial of justice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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