Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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MEDICINER, n. [mə′dɪsɪnər]
1. A doctor, a physician. Liter.Sc. 1828 Scott F. M. Perth xxiv.:
How is such a revulsion of blood to the brain to be prevented, sir mediciner?Sc. 1932 Scots Mag. (Feb.) 365:
It's a rare sickness, an unco distemper, though kent to the mediciners.Fif. 1998 Tom Hubbard Isolde's Luve-Daith 4:
And I, yince skeelie as mediciner,
Had naither baulm nor hairb fir this disays
2. The former title of the Professor of Medicine at King's College, Aberdeen. Now only hist.Sc. 1725 Fasti Aberdon. (S.C.) 445:
The procuratores . . . elect Dr James Gregory to the office of mediciner.Abd. 1761 Session Papers, Thom v. Dalrymple (1 Oct.) 28:
There now remain, upon Bishop Elphinston's foundation, only the principal, subprincipal, three regents, the civilist, mediciner, as he is called, and grammarian, together with some bursars.Sc. 1930 Abd. Univ. Calendar 20:
The duties of the Doctor or Professor of Medicine (Mediciner), . . . were in 1839 restricted to the teaching of Chemistry. In its original form, this Chair constitutes the most ancient foundation for Instruction in Medicine in Great Britain.
