surgeryn.

a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 3672 Boþe fysik and sirgirie Ȝhe hadde lerned of meisters grete.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 415 In al this world ne was ther noon hym lyk To speken of Phisik and of Surgerye.

c1450 Mankind 850 in Macro Plays 32 Whyll a wond ys fresch, yt ys prowyd curabyll be surgery.

1505 in Marwick Edinb. Guilds (1909) 59 That na..person..vse ony poyntis of saidis craftis of surregerie or barbour craft within this burgh bott gif [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 60 And they [sc. our hands] are often tarr'd ouer, with the surgery of our sheepe. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 254 Iag. What are you hurt Leiutenant? Cas. I, past all surgery . View more context for this quotation

1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest v. 77 Henceforward let your Surgery alone, for I had Rather he should dye, than you should cure his wound.

1784 J. Douglas Cook's Voy. Pacific II. iii. ix. 152 They perform cures in surgery, which our extensive knowledge..has not..enabled us to imitate.

1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing 74 Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals the wound.

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Jan. 166/2 Dental Surgery.

1897 W. Anderson On Surg. Treatm. Lupus 2 A bold and skilful surgery is usually exercised in the one case, and only half-hearted measures in the other.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lv. r iv/1 They [that haue the stone] shall be take to surgery.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xlvi. 11 In vayne shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wounde shall not be stopped.

1555 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlv. 137 How manye mens wyves and doughters in Flaunders lye at surgerye.

1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xxvi. f. 146 While he was at surgerie in curing he dyed.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 93/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Taking his waie to Downemore..where he laie at surgerie [1577 Chirurgerie].

1926 A. E. H. Pinch Radium Therapy Pref. p. viii At the present date much more work is done with tubes than flat applicators, and a special ‘surgery of access’ has gradually developed,..necessitating the employment of general anæsthesia. 327 operations of ‘surgery of access’ were performed during 1925, the regions treated comprising the nose, mouth, pharynx, larynx, œsophagus, stomach, rectum [etc.].

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 1428 God shend us from the harm Of such like Surgery.

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 67 A..creature,..to whose ease you cannot adde the tithe of one small atome, but by letting alone your unhelpfull Surgery.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 453 Terrible Surgery this: but is it Surgery and Judgment, or atrocious Murder merely?

1913 H. W. Clark Hist. Eng. Nonconf. II. iii. i. 69 Nonconformity had entered far too deeply into the nation's life to be eradicated by the severest surgery of law.

1961 J. Milnor in Proc. Symp. Pure Math. III. 39 Given any imbedding of S^p × D^{q + 1} in a manifold W of dimension n = p + q + 1, a new manifold W′ can be formed by removing the interior of S^p × D^{q + 1} and replacing it by the interior of D^{p + 1} × S^q. This procedure will be called surgery.

1961 J. Milnor in Proc. Symp. Pure Math. III. 40 A surgery of type (o, n + 1) replaces W by the disjoint sum W + Sⁿ.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVIII. 503/1 If M is an oriented manifold of dimension n ≧ 4, one can, by a succession of surgeries of index 1, kill the whole fundamental group π₁ of M.

1979 M. A. Armstrong Basic Topol. vii. 162 The result is a surface homeomorphic to the torus. A further surgery will give us the sphere.

1846 Bentley's Misc. June 549 A small den [Dr. Faunce] called ‘the surgery’.

1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. vii. 200 The door of the little surgery was ajar... The surgeon was standing at the mahogany counter, mixing a draught in a glass measure.

1872 L. P. Meredith Teeth (1878) 252 In some localities, the dentists..crowd their surgeries together in the same building.

1938 F. B. Young Dr. Bradley Remembers i. 1 Between six and eight..Dr. Bradley ‘took’ his evening surgery as usual.

1944 J. D. Carr Till Death do us Part xi. 113 I've got to be back..for surgery at half-past ten.

1964 D. Francis Nerve v. 73 I'm late for surgery... Those pills ought to keep him quiet.

1975 ‘J. Bell’ Victim ii. 23 Dr. Swallow was dealing with his morning surgery.

1951 Hansard (Commons) 19 Feb. 966 It is a practice of mine..to call personally upon as many of my constituents as I can, and I find that by doing this a different set of problems is presented to me from those which my post-bag or even my weekly ‘surgery’ bring.

1957 Times 22 Apr. 7/7 On the question of surgeries, they are largely a self-imposed task about which MP's cannot complain since they are so often the chosen method of getting votes at the next election.

1964 G. E. Noel Harold Wilson & ‘New Britain’ xiv. 111 As Prime Minister he intends, whenever humanly possible, to retain the system initiated in Ormskirk of personally visiting constituents who have reported problems instead of obliging them to attend ‘surgeries’.

1968 Times 7 Nov. 11/5 I was at my ‘surgery’ near the hall when constituents called to complain that they could not gain admittance to the meeting.

a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 258 I am going to have three successive days sitting on the front bench, followed on Friday by a full day of official visitations and a surgery in Coventry.

1982 P. Turnbull Dead Knock vii. 126 Councillor Floyd..was holding a surgery in the Council Chambers.

1973 Observer 18 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 39/1 The law surgery..run by the Sheffield Free Legal Information Service.

1980 Daily Tel. 7 June 19/3 An increasing number of Citizens' Advice Bureaux have regular ‘surgeries’ chaired by volunteer local accountants.

1981 Times 4 Apr. 2/5 The Asian community is..providing census ‘surgeries’ for householders.