单词 | medicine man |
释义 | medicine mann. 1. Among North American Indians and other peoples: a healer, a shaman; (among Australian Aboriginal people) = koradji n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > sorcerer or medicine man fetisheer1613 witch doctor1718 gris-gris man1788 medicine man1801 wizard1845 inyanga1862 moloi1871 goofer1887 trick-doctor1889 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > sorcerer or medicine man > American Indian medicine man1801 medicine1817 medicine woman1834 mystery1841 mystery man1841 mediciner1852 1801 A. Henry Jrnl. 1 Jan. (1988) I. 103 One of the Indians pretending to be a great medicine man..was employed by Mimintch to administer to his sick brother. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 116 I was accosted by the Medicine Man, or doctor. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xv. 202 The medicine-men, the Medas. 1865 G. S. Lang Aborigines in Austral. 8 The second class is that of the sorcerers or medicine men. 1923 T. Hall Short Hist. Downs Blacks 26 Unless a medicine man sucked the Muddlo out they would die with fear. 1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes ii. 46 A double-sexed two-headed snake named Sachan..was the typical emblem of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean medicine man. 1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 92 The medicine man at Nakivubo bus park had a fresh supply of snuff. 1988 Daily Tel. 21 June 13/1 The invitation to a Sioux medicine man to return to a region once populated by the Wyandots, Shawnee and Miami tribes was not..met with unanimous approval. 2. Chiefly colloquial. A doctor, a medical practitioner (often with humorous allusion to sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] physician?c1225 leecherc1374 practiserc1387 doctora1400 flesh-leecha1400 leechman14.. mediciner?a1425 miria1425 M.D.1425 medicine?c1450 practitioner?1543 minister1559 doc1563 artist1565 medicus1570 medicianera1578 Aesculapius1586 Dra1593 pisspot1592 medician1597 physicianer1598 medicinary1599 pisspot1600 velvet-cap1602 healer1611 Galena1616 physiner1616 clyster1621 clyster-pipe1622 hakim1623 medic1625 practicant1630 medico1647 physicker1649 physicster1689 Aesculapian1694 nim-gimmer1699 pill-monger1706 medical man1784 meester1812 medical1823 pill-gilder1824 therapeutist1830 pill1835 pill roller1843 med1851 pill-peddler1855 therapeutic1858 squirt1859 medicine man1866 pill pusher1879 therapist1886 doser1888 internist1894 pill-shooter1911 whitecoat1911 quack1919 vet1925 1866 Galaxy 1 May 27 The..fiend [sc. of Gomu, in a Cornish folk-tale] being ill, called in a subtle doctor, who played him the old trick. He grew at last so weak, that the great medicine-man kicked him over the cliff, and killed him. 1890 E. Dowson Let. 10 Oct. (1967) 170 In spite of my rooted aversion to the genre I shall have to call in a medicine-man. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 14 She bows her old head to a voice that speaks to her loudly, her bonesetter, her medicineman. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) iii. 72 The medicine men who keep this body Politic free from fevers, Cancer and constipation. 1994 Daily Mirror 4 Oct. (T.V. Daily Suppl.) 4/6 Alternative methods of treatment involving mind over matter are investigated by medicine man Dr. Rob Buckman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801 |
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