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noun

Physician n.

A person skilled in medicine, or the art of healing; especially, one trained and licensed to treat illness and prescribe medicines; a doctor of medicine.

Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.

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Etymology of 'Physician'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Physician" Quotes from Famous Books

... the length of time that she had been away, Lady Greendale merely replied that Bertha had been staying among friends, and that as she herself had not been in very good health, she had preferred staying in town, where she could always find a physician close at hand if she ...

— The Queen's Cup • G. A. Henty

... When she returned, conveying thanks and excuses, his Majesty commanded her to prepare a dinner at her home for Mark Twain and himself and a few special guests, the date to be arranged when Clemens's physician should pronounce him well ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... get some explanation of that queer tubeful of sand," said Jack, as he hung up the telephone receiver, having informed the physician that they would be at ...

— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner

... at the most," he whispered to me. "The best physician in France could do no more ...

— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens

... others! Oh! really, I advise you to speak contemptuously of Bohemia. Why, your clientage as a fashionable physician, O sublime Jenkins, is made up of nothing else. Bohemia of manufacturing, of finance, of politics; fallen stars, the tainted of all castes, and the higher you go the more of them there are, because high rank gives impunity and wealth ...

— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

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