单词 | hyp-doctor |
释义 | > as lemmashyp-doctor hyp-doctor n. now historical a doctor who specializes in the treatment of hypochondria (often regarded as a charlatan or quack).Recorded chiefly in or with reference to the 18th cent. ΚΠ ?1730 Scheme for New Lottery for Ladies 20 I shall have some Interest among the Audience, and will persuade them to change that Name [sc. Quack-Doctor], and call him Hyp-Doctor, which will be no Disgrace. 1985 R. Porter in G. S. Rousseau Langs. of Psyche (1990) i. ii. 55 George Cheyne, the king of the ‘hyp doctors’, concurred [that melancholy was organic]. 2005 I. Italia Rise Lit. Journalism 18th Cent. 16 Editors adopted a host of bizarre and flamboyant identities. They wrote as hermits, Jesuits, lay-monks and pilgrims; high German doctors, hyp-doctors, conjurors and mountebanks. < as lemmas |
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