单词 | barber-surgeon |
释义 | > as lemmasbarber-surgeon barber-surgeon n. a barber who (also) practises surgery or dentistry (now historical except in the name of Barber-Surgeons' Hall in London).In 1540 two London companies, the Company of Barbers and the Fellowship of Surgeons, were united by Act of Parliament as the Company of Barbers and Surgeons, whose members were sometimes referred to as barber-surgeons; their hall came to be known as Barber-Surgeons' Hall. In 1745 the company was divided again into two distinct corporations. ΘΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > barber-surgeon brass bason1598 razor-chirurgeon1624 1561 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 252 The xxiiij day of Feybruary whent to hang xviij men and ij women..the barbur-surgens had on of them to be a notheme at ther halle. 1588 W. Clowes Prooued Pract. Young Chirurgians 49 A Barber Surgion, whose name is called William Clarke..did in his maisters absence (by the intisement of the deuill) cut his owne throte with a knife. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 4 A certificate from the Barber-surgions Hall of his sufficiency. 1778 J. Huntington Let. 1 Jan. in G. Washington Papers (2003) Revolutionary War Ser. XIII. 101 A Barber Surgeon who can let Blood..will do as well. 1856 A. Manning Tasso & Leonora 100 I am off to the Barber-surgeon's to buy some freckle-water for Madama Leonora. 1989 O. V. Vijayan After the Hanging 104 They watched old Muslims sit stooped, hollow goats' horns stuck on their shaven heads to let barber-surgeons draw out impure blood. 2017 Times 14 Dec. 61/3 His grandfather had been a barber-surgeon who ‘used to amputate people's limbs alongside giving them a good shave’. < as lemmas |
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