The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chirurgeon \Chi*rur"geon\, n. [F. chirurgien, from chirurgie surgery, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? working or operating with the hand; chei`r hand + ? work. Cf. Surgeon, Work.] A surgeon. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, representing a failed Renaissance attempt to restore Greek spelling to the word that had got into English as surgeon; now, thank the gods, archaic. Related: Chirurgery. Compare French chirurgien.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A doctor or surgeon.
Usage examples of "chirurgeon".
She was the closest thing to a chirurgeon and healer the marshes boasted, and so was inviolate from most of the mayhem that raged among the marsh-dwellers.
This time the slightly wounded men brought in the badly wounded, and most of those died while the chirurgeons were trying to help them.
He found Caudyr there ahead of them, and as they started their work, other chirurgeons came to join them and some of the servants as well.
The chirurgeons, who wanted his legend to end with a worthy death, stated that an old wound, never properly healed, had burst open.
The beauty of the poison, said the former assassin, was that symptoms were misleading, looking like a fever, which would cause chirurgeons and healing priests to attempt cures that would avail them nothing.
I mean support, food, weapons, chirurgeons, porters, boys for the luggage, commissaries, engineers.
The baggage train and the chirurgeons will catch up to us soon enough.
And there are injured women awaiting, who would be better served by the chirurgeons of Nineveh than my poor endeavors.
We were taken in by a hospice honoring the great god Zake and tended by the chirurgeons dedicated to his holy name.
The royal chirurgeon himself took the leg offand a very quick, craftsmanlike job he did, too, I watched it all, having an interest in such thingsbut the knight still died.
Master Mullens dictated his will to the Governor, which he noted down, and Giles Heale, the chirurgeon, and Christopher Joanes, of the crew, witnessed, they being left aboard to care for the sick, keep the ship, etc.
The chirurgeons back in camp heard the battle begin, a distant shouting on the wind.
A message from one of the chirurgeons informed him that Alysandra would live, but it had been a close thing.
A field investigator of the Department of Apothecaries and Chirurgeons had arrived a hundred days ago, but quickly left in some confusion.
Besides, the records I am looking for are not in the Palace of the Memory of the People, but in the archives of the Department of Apothecaries and Chirurgeons.