“medicaster”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

medicaster

释义

medicaster|ˈmɛdɪkæstə(r)|
Also 8 medicastor.
[a. assumed L. *medicaster (whence also It. medicastro, F. médicastre), f. medicus physician: see medic and -aster.]
A pretender to medical skill; a quack, charlatan. So † mediˈcastra, a female ‘medicaster’.
1602F. Herring Anat. 28 An other Medicastra, a ratling Gossip..commended a Drench.1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 244 Andreas Libavius, doth report of a certain Medicaster of his time [etc.].1706E. Baynard in Sir J. Floyer Hot & Cold Bath. ii. 393, I could say much more..to the Shame..of this sorry Medicaster.1835J. M. Wilson Tales of Borders (1857) I. 59 Doctors are quacks and medicasters to us.1881A. J. Duffield Don Quixote I. 337 A queen may be leman to a medicaster.

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