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单词 medicine man
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medicine mann.

Brit. /ˈmɛd(ᵻ)s(ᵻ)n man/, U.S. /ˈmɛdəs(ə)n ˌmæn/
Inflections: Plural medicine men.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably modelled on an Ojibwa lexical item. Etymons: medicine n.1, man n.1
Etymology: < medicine n.1 (compare sense 5a at that entry) + man n.1, probably originally after Ojibwa mashkikiiwinini physician ( < mashkiki medicine + inini man). Compare medicine woman n. at medicine n.1 Compounds 2b, and medicine n.1 5b.
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).
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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).
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