chiropracticadj.n.
/kʌɪərəʊˈpraktɪk/ A. adj.
That practises or is concerned with the curing of disease by manipulation of the structures of the human body, esp. those of the spinal column.
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osteopathic1897
chiropractic1898
1898 Stone's Davenport (Iowa) City Directory 384 Dr. Palmer Chiropractic School & Cure.
1908 Congress. Rec. 6 Apr. A bill to regulate the practice of chiropractic, to license chiropractic physicians, [etc.]
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 348/2 The country is overrun with..chiropractic and osteopathic doctors.
1926 J. H. Jones Healing by Manip. 64 Biologists, once they become aware of the chiropractic principle..will probably do useful service.
1962 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 1 Nov. 939/2 Three recent superior-court judgments regarding chiropractic practice..indicate an increasing campaign by the chiropractor..to rid chiropractic of its stigma as a cult.
B. n.
Such a method of curing disease.
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osteopathy1894
chiropractic1903
1903 (title) Backbone. The journal of chiropractic.
1908 [see sense A.]. 1913 B. J. Palmer (title) The science of chiropractic, containing a series of lectures..and used as a textbook at the Palmer School of Chiropractic.
1926 J. H. Jones Healing by Manip. 35 Chiropractic or bone-setting differs from most other methods of combating disease.
1928 Sunday Express 16 Dec. 2/3 Chiropractics..was born in America about 1894, and Mr. B. J. Palmer, the son of the founder, runs a chiropractic school at Davenport, Iowa.
1948 K. Davis Human Society xx. 576 Chiropractic and naturopathy, offshoots of osteopathy, though much more backward and cultish.
1962 [see sense A.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.n.1898