patientryn.
/ˈpeɪʃntri/, U.S. /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)ntri/ rare.
In early use: patients or sick people collectively. In later use (chiefly humorous): the science of the treatment or care of patients; the fact of being a patient.
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1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 29 To see how pretily these young gamesters Male and Female lay about them, and engrosse the greater part of Patientrie in all places wheresoeuer.
1997 D. J. Enright Hosp. Jrnl. in Coll. Poems 506 (heading) Honorary professor of patientry. The peripatetic doctor and his pupils Are spellbound.
2001 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 8 Sept. The acting was as a simulated patient for fourth-year medical students at Wright State... Simulated patientry began in the '60s, and grew up in the '80s.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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