auscultatorn.
/ˈɔːskʌlteɪtə/ 1. Medicine. One who practises auscultation.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > using specific instrument
stethoscopist1828
auscultator1833
laryngoscopist1864
auto-laryngoscopist1865
gastroscopist1937
1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 225 In the hands of an expert auscultator.
1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 77 The auscultator..bringing to his aid the double stethoscope.
2. Title formerly given in Germany to a young lawyer who has passed his first public examination, and is thereupon employed by Government, but without salary and with no fixed appointment. (Now called referendar.)
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > apprentice
auscultator1834
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iv, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 192/2 His first Law Examination he has come through triumphantly..he is hereby ‘an Auscultator of respectability’.
1884 Sat. Rev. 2 Feb. 146.
Derivatives
auscultatorship n.
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auscultatorship1834
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iv, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 192/2 His progress from the passive Auscultatorship, towards any active Assessorship.
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