Physician
[fɪ'zɪʃ(ə)n] or [fɪ'zɪʃən]
Definition
(n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Doctor, medical man.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a young woman to dream of a physician, denotes that she is sacrificing her beauty in engaging in frivolous pastimes. If she is sick and thus dreams, she will have sickness or worry, but will soon overcome them, unless the physician appears very anxious, and then her trials may increase, ending in loss and sorrow.
Checker: Sinclair
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
Typist: Murray
Examples
- Now, said the physician, we must turn all these creatures out; all depends on his being kept quiet. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The physician, on his arrival, confirmed my view of the case. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My dear, said she as she carefully folded up her scarf and gloves, my brave physician ought to have a title bestowed upon him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ordinarily a combination of products best serves the ends of the physician. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The physician declared that he died of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Few ways of life were hidden from Physician, and he was oftener in its darkest places than even Bishop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Now this commission consists of the Health Officer, a physician and three citizens who serve without pay. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And what would you say of the physician? Plato. The Republic.
- In the meantime the young physician’s apprentice had been lured away from Penzance. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the year 1600, Gilbert, an English physician, enlarged considerably the catalogue of substances which have the property of attracting light bodies. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And in the same interests, if the coming of the physician is delayed, I will enter it again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I am a physician and was requested--five minutes ago--to come and visit a sick man at George's Shooting Gallery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If you have a tendency toward mouth breathing, let a physician examine your nose and throat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I have heard reputable physicians condemn a certain method of psychotherapy because it was immoral. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I have already observed that they are subject to no diseases, and therefore can have no need of physicians. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The extra work which is thrown upon the nervous system through seeing, reading, writing, and sewing with defective eyes is recognized by all physicians as an important cause of disease. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is surely a dream, said the Preceptor; we have many Jewish physicians, and we call them not wizards though they work wonderful cures. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Other letters from the same general period mention the presence of physicians at court. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Physicians' prescriptions carefully prepared,” and all the rest of it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Physicians who perform operations wash not only their hands, but their instruments, sterilizing the latter by placing them in boiling water for several minutes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I sent at once to two of Mr. Candy's medical friends in the town, both physicians, to come and give me their opinion of the case. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And living in this way we shall have much greater need of physicians than before? Plato. The Republic.
- Pestilence and disease were met by Imperial hospitals and government physicians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the treatment of chilblains we give a detailed list of formulas from the works and practice of a number of the most eminent physicians and surgeons. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- She has had a poor opinion of the physicians since my father's death. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The pecuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculptors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A difference between two physicians of established local repute, and a stranger who was only an assistant in the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The two physicians, for a wonder, turned out to be unanimous, or rather, though of different minds, they concurred in action. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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