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单词 bone-setter
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bone-settern.

Brit. /ˈbəʊnˌsɛtə/, U.S. /ˈboʊnˌsɛdər/
Forms: see bone n.1 and setter n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bone n.1, setter n.1
Etymology: < bone n.1 + setter n.1In sense 2 apparently with humorous allusion to sense 1; compare earlier bone-setting adj. 2.
1. A person, esp. one without professional qualifications, who is skilled in or engages in the treatment of dislocations and fractures of bones and of various other musculoskeletal complaints. Now chiefly historical.Also in figurative contexts and figurative, esp. in the 17th cent.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > others
bone-setter?1518
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tenotomist1842
orthopaedist1853
plastic surgeon1863
resectionist1863
cephalotomist1869
amputator1882
brain surgeon1888
tracheotomist1891
neurosurgeon1925
face-lifter1928
plastician1928
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?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Ev A bonesetter he hyreth [L. conducit aliptem].
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 541 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 75 He ys allso a boone-setter.
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. clxxiv. f. 113 in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Few or none of our Ferrers do intermeddle with any such griefes [sc. bones being broken or out of ioynt], but doe referre it ouer vnto the bone setter.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xi. 99 Accounted the best Bone-setter in the Country.
1642 J. Denham Sophy 53 When your Majestie has done the office of a Bone-setter to the Body Politike.
a1700 J. Bramston Autobiogr. (1845) 297 A bone-setter..came..and tryed it with a coole-staff, which put my Son to extream torture.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 226 An Eminent Bone-setter and a good Surgeon.
1764 St. James's Chron. 6 Dec. He procured a Horse, and set off as well as he could for a Bone-Setter's at Stainford.
1824 Med. Adviser 11 Dec. 402 (heading) Cutters, Hackers, Bleeders, and Bone-setters.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Sept. 5/1 A bone-setter is a sort of amateur surgeon, who has learnt the art of curing dislocations empirically, and who practises that particular branch of surgery in an informal, irregular manner... Of late..the art of the bone-setter has risen into some repute with the regular profession.
1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Aug. 494/2 Quite recently the secretary of the local Branch..brought a flagrant case before the notice of the authorities, a bone-setter and ‘dream doctor’ being fined..for having medically attended a patient.
1978 Country Life 7 Sept. 609/2 I must believe tomorrow, though if I give my bone-setter his title of osteopath I suppose the whole business is reduced to simple mechanics.
2005 J. McGahern Memoir 187 In the morning he took her to Donoghue, the bonesetter in Cloone who set the ankle but botched the setting.
2. slang (chiefly humorous). A horse or vehicle that provides an uncomfortably rough, jarring, or bumpy ride. Cf. boneshaker n. Now historical and regional.
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1775 P. Duigenan Pranceriana 31 Master Eusebius! check your nag for one moment, I beseech you. For God's sake, man, use your bone-setter a little gently on the high road of common sense.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Bone setter, a hard trotting horse.
1796 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses I. v. 228 Some [horses] trot too short, and taking up their feet rapidly, appear to set them down almost in the same place. These are commonly bone-setters.
1826 M. Kelly Reminiscences 99 We hired a German post waggon..and a complete bone-setter it was!
1857 H. W. Herbert Frank Forester's Horse & Horsemanship I. 291 Flatbush wagons and sixpenny bone-setters were jammed in between four-in-hand landaus, fast crabs in match carts, elegant stanhopes, and the superb turn-outs of our wealthy cits.
1878 G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. vi. 107 He owned a sound, speedy, high-trotting hack, and on this ‘bone setter’ he travelled backwards and forwards twelve miles of the great Bath Road.
1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) Bone-setter, a rough-gaited saddle-horse. ‘Get up! you old bone-setter’.
1972 G. Heyer Lady of Quality 13 Well, thank god, at least this bonesetter is none the worse!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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