medicaster
noun/ˈmɛdɪkastə/UK/ˈmɛdəˌkæstɚ/US
Etymology
From French médicastre or Italian medicastro, from Late Latin medicaster, from Latin medicus (“a doctor, a physician; a surgeon”) + -aster (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance, which are thus usually pejorative).
- derived from medicus
- derived from medicaster
- derived from medicastro
- derived from médicastre
Definitions
A quack doctor
A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
- [I]t [opium] is a double-edged sword, a divine gift in the hands of a master, a poison in those of a mere routinist—a medicaster—a demi-physician.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for medicaster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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