oculist
/ˈɒkjʊlɪst
/noun dated
An ophthalmologist or optician: he visited an oculist in Chicago, who prescribed a pair of reading glasses...
- His grandfather, the legendary ‘Chevalier’ Taylor, had been oculist to George II, and afterwards, so his grandson assures us, to ‘every crowned head in Europe’.
- Obsessed with her health, she traveled with a retinue of surgeons, physicians, oculists, and apothecaries.
- Today, he will have an artificial eye inserted by an oculist at the New Zealand Artificial Eye Service in Takapuna.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French oculiste, from Latin oculus 'eye'.