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Medicinar(e, Medecinar(e, n. Also: medicyn-, medycin-, medycyn-, medicen-, medycen-, medisen-, medison-, medecyn-, medesyn- and -ar(e, -er(e, -eir; medcinare, -cinair, -cynar, -cynnair, -soneir, metsouner. [e.m.E. (once) medycyner (1533), otherwise chiefly or only Sc.: cf. OF. medecineur. Cf. also Medicianar.]

1. A physician: a practitioner of medicine; also applied to a lay person skilled in medicine.Also attrib.In common use throughout the period.In certain instances appar. specifically a physician as distinct from a surgeon; see Leche n.¹ and the following: 1456 Hay I. 115/14.
To ger purvay for thame lechis and medicinaris 1506–7 Balfour Pract. 150.
Ony procurator, mediciner, chirugeon [etc.] 1551 Hamilton Cat. ii. 1552 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 170.
With ane priest, ane surrigiane, ane medicinar and xl beddis at vj d. the day 1560 Rolland Seven S. 105. 1565–6 Breadalbane Lett. No. 84.
The consultasione of dywers mediciners or schirurgenis is necessair 1596 Dalr. I. 142 marg.
Medicineris & surigeoneris or barbouris he esteimet nocht litle, for of baith the sciences him selfe was maist expert 1605 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 241.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xli. 71.
Medicinaris his stat to se Ib. ii. 739, xxxvi. 1071, etc. c1420 Wynt. v. 1462, 2698.
Medicynarys [v.rr. medycynaris, medecynaris] 1453 Exch. R. V. 586.
Magistro Jacobo medicinare 1456 Hay II. 108/26. Ib. I. 101/26, II. 117/20, etc.
Na ȝit in a medicinare allane na prince suld lepyn his hele c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 2753.
Mediceinar 1490 Irland Mir. I. 55/24, etc. a1500 Seven S. 704, etc. a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 373. 1503 Treas. Acc. II. 364, 397, etc. 1527–8 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 232. 1531 Bell. Boece I. 51.
He was aine gud medicinar, and had gud experience of herbis Id. Livy II. 148/31. 1533 Boece ii. viii. 73 b, iii. xii. 109 b. 1549 Compl. 122/10.
The verite of this trason vas persauit be the phicisians and medicinaris 1551 Hamilton Cat. 215.
Sum hailsum medicyne gevin to him be sum cunning and expert medicinar 1557 Wemyss Corr. ii.
Counsalit be his medicinaris 1560 Rolland Seven S. 8971. 1562-3 Winȝet II. 13/9. 1567 Sel. MSS. Q. Mary 175. 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 8, 39, etc. c 1570 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 652/1.
I durst gif hir ne thing bot thoillit God be hir medisenar 1570 Leslie 5. 1580 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I. 119. 1581 Treas. Acc. MS. (1579–81) 86² b.
Medycinare and houshald man to the kingis maiestie 1592 Acts III. 586/1.
Ane article p[rese]ntit be the medicinaris and ypothecaris 1596 Reliq. Antiq. Sc. 79. 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 105.
Becaus the warld wes evill and spake na gude of sic medicinars Ib. 106.
Helen Frasser, his medicinar 1599 Rollock Wks. I. 372. 1599 Hume 68/1. 1615–16 Ayr B. Acc. 262. 1658 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 172.
Dishonorabill to the facultie of medicinarsattrib. 1541 Reg. Privy S. II. 631/1.
Ad lie medicinare croce apud boream(b) a1500 Seven S. 679.
Get ȝow ane nother medicinere [: heire] a1500 Bk. Chess 1175, 1654, etc. 1572 Sat. P. xxxiii. 65. 1579 Atholl Mun. I. No. 90.
Mr Gilbert Moncreif mediciner a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 1348.
Be mediciner to the man 1598 Crim. Trials II. 64.
That his Majestie … direct mediceneris to tak tryell thairof a1598 Ferg. Prov. (1641) 4 b. a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS. No. 378.
Eat measurablie & defye the medicineris 1600-1610 Melvill 43, 139, 417. 1611 Dundonald Par. Rec. 223. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1668.
Unlearned mediciners unskilful midwifs slayeis manie persons 1667 Lamont Diary 249.
Doctor Makgill, a mediciner(c) c1460 Consail Vys Man 103.
Schaip nocht to be his medesynere To lak the met he lufis dere 1499–1500 Acta Conc. II. 351.
Culrodis medecinare a1538 Abell 93 b.
Michell mastir Scot gret medecinar c1590 Fowler II. 80/25. c1610 Melville Mem. 51.
The K[ing] had a medeciner callit Apolephanes that loved him entierly 1612 Monipennie Chron. in Misc. Scot. I. 25.
He was a good medecinar and herbestar(d) 1531 Bell. Boece II. 61.
And fenyeit him to be ane medcinare, havand remeid aganis all maner of informiteis Ib. I. 193. 1540 Lynd. Sat. 428 (B).
Ȝe ken richt weill I am na medcynnair [: forfair; Ch. 432 medcinair] a1578 Pitsc. II. 127/5.
Quha was hangit be the heillis be the metsouneris to caus the poysone to drop out

b. transf. or fig.(1) a1450 Fifteen Ois 71.
O Jesu, hevinlie medicinar 1490 Irland Mir. fol. 231.
The noble medycinare of this curacioun is Jhesus 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 128.
Christe … quha wes both medicinar and medicyne hym self 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 16.
God … quha is onlie the trew medicinare of bodie and saull 1587-99 Hume 45/139.(2) a1568 Bann. MS. 227 b/4.
O maistres myld, … Sen ȝe may be my medicineir [: presoneir, dengeir, deir v.] Ib. 223 a/45.
Medisoneir [: cleir, beir, sueir] Ib. 234 a/21.
Medsoneir [: seir, deir a., roseir] 1581-1623 James VI Poems II. 69/6.(3) 1587-99 Hume 45/129.
O meruellous great mediciner [sc. bodily sickness] and soueraine mediceine

2. The professor of medicine in a University. 1590–1 Exch. R. XXII. 146.
To the medicinar of the college of Abirdene 1617 Acts IV. 576/1.
The canonist, ciuilist, mediciner and grammariour … of the said colledge [Aberdeen] c1650 Spalding I. 139. Ib. 166, etc.
And doctour Williame Gordoun, mediciner 1640 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 419.
The medicineris place, now waccant throw the deceiss of Mr. William Gordoune, last professor therof