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herbmaster

noun

Etymology

From herb + master.

  1. derived from maistre
  2. derived from *méǵh₂s✻
  3. derived from magester
  4. derived from magister — “chief, teacher, leader”
  5. inherited from mǣster
  6. inherited from maister
  7. compounded as herbmaster — “herb + master”

Definitions

  1. An expert in herbal medicine.

    • […] the herbmaster of the Houses of Healing in The Return of the King is descended from the “jabberwocks of historical and antiquarian research” in the British Academy lecture.
    • Biting the words back and swallowing them was harder than swallowing the vile concoctions of lunatic herbmasters, but she managed.
    • “And because of these facets of the craft, partial adepts can also sometimes be herbmistresses or herbmasters.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA