physicianshipn.
/fᵻˈzɪʃnʃɪp/, U.S. /fəˈzɪʃ(ə)nˌʃɪp/ The position or office of physician. Also: a mock title of respect given to a physician.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > office or position of
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1732 H. Fielding Mock Doctor 15 I shall bind his Physicianship over to his good Behaviour.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 251/2 A promise of succeeding on the first vacancy to the physicianship in ordinary.
1888 Athenæum 17 Mar. 340/2 Latham..was..elected to the physicianship of the St. George's and St. James's Dispensary.
1998 Brit. Med. Jrnl. (Nexis) 316 1023 After a house physicianship in Leeds he undertook a rotating internship at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Sick Children in London.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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