panaceistn.
/ˌpanəˈsiːɪst/, U.S. /ˌpænəˈsiᵻst/ A person who offers or applies a panacea; a person who believes in panaceas.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > advocating specific treatments
antidotary?1541
stibiarian1635
iatraliptic1656
pyrurgian1684
Mercurialist1733
panaceist1803
galvanist1805
salivator1834
antisepticist1878
transfusionist1889
opsonist1911
fluoridationist1951
multidisciplinarian1955
1803 S. T. Coleridge Let. to R. Southey in Lett. (1895) 438 If the coach~man do not turn Panaceist, and cure all my ills by breaking my neck.
1849 G. C. Lewis Ess. Infl. Authority x. §6. 382 The panaceist..[has] one principle, which he introduces everywhere, and which he expects to prove a complete and immediate remedy for numerous political ills of the most discordant natures.
1939 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 5 20 Fiddlers, fire-eaters, lecturers, to say nothing of panaceists of all types, visited the river towns.
1954 C. B. Vedder Juvenile Offender 500 When another panaceist yells ‘better housing,’ communities rush to construct beautiful, low-rent housing projects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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