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physiciann. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French phisicien. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ficiscien, fisciciane, fississiain, fizechien, fesiscien, fesissian, visicien, fysicien, Anglo-Norman and Old French fisicien, fisician, fisitien, phisicien, phisitien, Old French fusicien, fesicien, physicien, etc., medical practitioner (c1170; Middle French fisicien , fusicien , phisicien , phizicien , Middle French, French physicien , also in sense ‘natural scientist’ (1532)) < physique medicine, science (see physic n.) + -ien -ian suffix; compare -ician suffix. Compare post-classical Latin physicianus (1391 in a British source), Old Occitan fezecia, fezecian, pisicia, etc. (13th cent.), Catalan †fisicià (13th cent.), Italian fisiciano, Middle Dutch phisicien, fisicijn.In the phrase physician, heal thyself (see sense 1b) after Luke 4:23 (post-classical Latin (Vulgate) medice cura teipsum , Hellenistic Greek (New Testament) ἰατρέ, θεράπευσον σεαυτόν ). With the 17th-cent. form physiciant compare -ant suffix3. 1. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > duly qualified ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 272 Þeo þeschulden ane lechnin hare saule..for wurðeð fisiciens & licomes leche. c1300 St. Lucy (Harl.) 7 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill (1956) 566 (MED) In fisiciens heo hadde ispend mochedel of hire gode, Ac þer nas non þat miȝte hire hele. a1425 J. Wyclif (1869) I. 60 (MED) Man may spende al þat he haþ aboute oþir fecicisians. 1484 W. Caxton tr. iii. ii I am a leche, and with al a good phesycyen. ?1507 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 95 In medicyne the most practicianis, Lechis, surrigianis and phisicianis. 1540 c. 40 Forasmuche as the science of phisicke dothe comprehend..the knowledge of surgery as a speciall membre and parte of the same, therefore be it enacted that anny of the said company or felawiship of Phisitions..may..exercise the said science of Phisick in all and every his membres and partes. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus f. 278v The physicians dooe not fall to cuttyng, except all other meanes and wayes afore proved. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. i. 71 More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian. 1639 J. Woodall (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. B The more learned sort are justly stiled by the title of Physicians, and the more experienced sort are called Chirurgions or Surgeons. 1707 J. Chamberlayne (ed. 22) iii. 550 Physicians in Ordinary to her Majesty's Person..Apothecaries..Chirurgeons. 1758 S. Johnson 5 Aug. 137 The anatomical novice..stiles himself Physician, prepares himself by familiar cruelty..to extend his arts of torture..which he has hitherto tried upon cats and dogs. 1809 E. A. Kendall III. lxxii. 128 Physician is the title of all medical practitioners in the United States. 1813 J. Thomson Introd. 15 It is from the separation produced by these two decrees [issued by Pope Boniface the Sixth, and Clement the Fifth, at Avignon], that we ought, I conceive, to date the true origin of the distinction between physician and surgeon, such as it has existed in modern times; a distinction unknown in the practice of the ancients. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ I. ii. xviii. 329 To obscure the limit between his own rank as a general practitioner and that of the physicians, who, in the interests of the profession, felt bound to maintain its various grades. 1922 July 37/2 Unless you see the name ‘Bayer’ on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years. 1957 B. Spock (new ed.) 36 It's a good idea to discuss charges when first engaging a physician. 1990 July 41/1 Whereas some physicians in the U.S. believe that a diastolic pressure higher than ninety should be treated, an English physician is unlikely to suggest treatment unless the reading is more than a hundred. c1390 in F. J. Furnivall (1901) ii. 537 (MED) Ne mak þin heir no ficiscian, In hope to liue euer hol man. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 1183 (MED) Ne be þou yn swych errour To make þyn eyr þy secutour, Ne þy sekutoure þy fysycyene, Yn hope for to leue aȝene. 1526 Luke iv. f. lxxixv Visicion, heale thy silfe. 1550 J. Heywood (new ed.) ii. vii. sig. Fvi Fede by measure, and defie the physicion. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius lxviii. Annot. Whereupon might arise our English proverbe, A foole or a physition. 1622 G. de Malynes 254 We see the Prouerbe to be true, That the vnknowne disease putteth out the Physitians eye. 1721 J. Kelly 101 Every Man at thirty is a Fool or a Physician. 1798 J. Pawson 17 Many who hear us [sc. Methodist preachers], will on a variety of occasions be apt to say ‘Physician, heal thyself.’ 1873 E. P. Roe xxxiv. 481 She was taught how vain her efforts were, in her present mood, by Zell's saying, sharply, ‘Physician, heal thyself’. 1969 R. Rendell iv. 38 In your capacity as my medical adviser, you advised me to walk upstairs. Physician, heal thyself. About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change. 1826 18 Feb. 715/1 Only Member of the College of Physicians, and ‘Physician extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence’! 1895 W. Munk 135 The appointment of physician-extraordinary to the king. 2003 85 387/2 Barlow was ‘physician extraordinary’ to Queen Victoria. the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > one who or that which a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 14 Angelis..buþ I-clepid leches and phesicians [L. medici], for þey cureþ and heleþ soules. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 82 (MED) Seint Poul himself was þere a phisicyen for to kepen mennes bodyes in hele before he was conuerted, & after þat he was phisicien of soules. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Luke Pref. 8 b Woordes and talke is the physician of a mynde beeyng diseased and sicke. 1600 E. M. Wingfield Disc. Virginia in (1860) 4 76 If it wandereth in extravagantes, yet shall they not bee idle to those physitions whose loves have undertaken the saftie and advancement of Virginia. 1687 J. Norris 106 I'll trust my great Physitian's skill. a1775 J. Churchman (1780) 125 When the healing virtue of truth, from the holy Physician of Souls, has flowed through an humble servant. 1806 T. S. Surr III. ix. 262 Time must be her physician. 1868 T. T. Lynch (ed. 3) cxl. 172 That thorny cares may yield sweet fruits, And comforts be physicians. 1980 (Nexis) 23 Nov. 15/1 Can this windy Bible-banger really be a gifted physician of the soul? 2003 (Nexis) 24 Jan. a14 These musicians are not mere entertainers, but true ‘physicians’ of the heart. the world > matter > physics > [noun] > physical scientist or natural philosopher a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 28 Fiscicus, kindely ficien. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate (Arun.) (1911) 363 (MED) He made..Massageres ryde..For dyvynoures and phylosophres wise, For such as weren famous physiciens And wel expert Astronomyens. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 4363 (MED) Ne foloȝe we na ficesyens ne philisophour scolis. 1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox (1848) II. 218 For the ordinarie Stipend of the..Mathematiciane, Phisitiane, and Morall Philosophie [sic], we think sufficient ane hundreth pundis. 1610 A. Willet 30 Naturall and humane dreames, the interpretation whereof belongeth vnto physicians and philosophers. 1674 R. Boyle in T. Birch (1757) III. 147 Chemists and physicians..agree in supposing this precipitate to be made without any additament [etc.]. 1833 J. Martineau (1852) 6 An analysis of Dr. Priestley's character as a theologian, a physicien, a metaphysician.] Compounds C1. Appositive. 1814 21 Sept. 1 Dr. Merriman, Physician-Accoucheur to the Middlesex Hospital. 1903 26 Dec. 1824/1 For twenty years he was physician accoucheur to the Bristol General Hospital. 1986 Spring 143 Dr. G. T. Gream, physician-accoucheur to Queen Charlotte's Lying-In Hospital and one of the most fashionable obstetricians in London's West End, was particularly outspoken on this point. 1901 6 Dec. 4/4 The regulations which the physician-founder drew up. 1995 25 76/2 The author is no relation to Dr Bradley, Denver physician/founder. C2. 1987 10 Apr. v. 1/1 The intensifying discussion over a narrowly specialized aspect of euthanasia—a practice called ‘physician-assisted suicide’. 1994 J. M. Hoefler & B. E. Kamoie vi. 148 The panoply of activism forces currently at work in the nation seem to indicate that physician-assisted suicide will be a legal option in a growing number of states in the not-too-distant future. 1996 (Nexis) 67 280 With the ethical dilemmas presented by physician-assisted suicide, patient advocates have developed a list of three criteria, all of which must be met before a physician even contemplates helping a patient commit suicide. 2001 (Electronic ed.) 9 June 1376 Besides the vagaries of politics, there is something deeper that makes widespread adoption of euthanasia or physician assisted suicide unlikely and even counterproductive. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > ring finger 1623 tr. A. Favyn i. v. 48 Aulus Gellius,..declareth, that a small and subtile arterie..proceedeth from the heart, to beate on this Physition finger. 1817 30 Apr. 4 M. Hall, M.D. formerly Senior President of the Royal Medical Society, and Physician's Assistant, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. 1889 7 Sept. 13/3 The Physician's Assistant, Physician-Accoucheur's Assistant,..are selected by examination from amongst the Students. 1901 18 May 1436/2 In 1862 he was appointed resident physician's assistant to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. 1958 C. R. Barnett et al. xvii. 319 These physicians' assistants..received training midway between that for a doctor and that for a nurse. 1966 198 1108 The physician's assistant will be able to draw blood, start and regulate intravenous infusions, intubate the gastrointestinal tract, and do other procedures classically performed by the doctor. 2002 (Midwest ed.) 12 May xiii. 1/4 The person wearing the white coat may not be a doctor at all but a physician assistant, or PA. Derivatives the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [adjective] 1889 J. K. Jerome i He..has a somewhat family-physicianary way of putting things.] 1932 12 Nov. 1053/1 Some surgeons of today stood in need of the ‘physicianary’ qualities of an earlier age. 1952 J. B. Cabel 26 After that more than chivalrous heathen monarch had turned out not, after all, to be the skilled leech Something-or-Other, whose exact physicianary name I, at the instant, forget. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > office or position of 1857 19 Sept. 305/2 Physiciancy for Eastern Division vacant. 1881 13 Jan. 11/3 The Physiciancy to the Queen in Ireland. 1911 6 May 1236/1 It is not unusual for the same gentleman to hold a house surgeoncy or physiciancy for from five to ten years. 1967 22 166 He [sc. Marcet] continued to lecture on that subject during the whole of his tenure of the physiciancy there. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [adjective] > qualified or licensed 1758 H. Walpole 10 Feb. Dr. Lucas, a physicianed apothecary. 1849 21 Apr. 432/2 It is well known that the provincial parts of the island would have been physician-less! 1888 6 Sept. He died physicianless. 1987 (Nexis) 31 May (Cayuga/Seneca ed.) (Metro section) c2 Westerling and Clifton-Fine's Radey say they have also found physicianless communities to be ready allies. 2002 (Nexis) 74 7 The committee is not only nearly ‘physicianless’ but has been censured by the American Medical Assn. for making recommendations dangerous to human health (Feedstuffs, Jan. 21). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † physicianv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: physician n. Etymology: < physician n. Obsolete. rare. the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > practise the healing art [verb (transitive)] > put under physician's care 1825 M. Shelley Let. 21 July in (1980) I. 497 I sincerely wish, my dear Payne, that you could physician my annoyances for then I am sure they would come to a speedy conclusion. 1896 D. Sladen in Christmas No. The travellers bestormed were straight put to bed and physicianed. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > make into a physician [verb (transitive)] 1839 G. Wilson Let. in (1860) iv. 205 The mystic medicating cap has not yet physicianed me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019). <  n.?c1225 v.1825 |
