medicusn.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 37 Ask Medicus councel.

1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories sig. ee 1 ^v The word Physitian we do vulgarly abuse (as we doe very many other) for a Leech, or Medicus, but not altogether intollerably, because it is a trite, and a true saying, that Vbi desinit Philosophus incipit Medicus, where the Naturalist..ends, there the Medicus begins.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Physitian The sence of this word in the common acception is well known, yet we vulgarly abuse it, for a Leech or Medicus.

1849 T. Carlyle Reminisc. Irish Journey (1882) 133 Young Shine Lawlor's brother a medicus from Edinburgh; pleasant idle youth with cavendish tobacco.

1885 G. Meredith Let. 2 Apr. in A. R. Burr Weir Mitchell (1930) 212 The crux of the position between the young medicus and Mrs. Westerley..has the stamp of highest nobility.

1923 R. A. Freeman Cat's Eye ii. 18 ‘Has this young lady been properly attended to?’ ‘Yes,’ I answered. ‘The doctor here—Dr.—’ ‘Nichols,’ said the medicus. ‘I have examined the wound thoroughly.’

1959 Listener 26 Nov. 922/1 When Schiller died at the age of forty-six, this medicus, poet,..historian left behind a life-work of imposing dimensions.