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Æsculapian

Æsculapian is the archaic form of Aesculapian.

Meaning of Aesculapian

Adjective

Aesculapian (comparative more Aesculapian, superlative most Aesculapian)

  1. (literally) Of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.
    • The Aesculapian sanctuary on Kos island was also a center of medical learning and practice
  2. (figuratively) Medical, concerning healing.
    • Water therapy at famous springs is an Aesculapian method which recently came back in fashion, as when Bath reemerged from archaelogy to high-society spa

Forms of Æsculapian

comparativemore Æsculapian
superlativemost Æsculapian

Questions about Æsculapian

What is Æsculapian the archaic form of?
Æsculapian is the archaic form of Aesculapian.

Words near Æsculapian in the dictionary

  1. Æs
  2. Æsacus
  3. æsc
  4. Æschines
  5. Æschylus
  6. Æsculapian
  7. æsculin
  8. æsh
  9. æshes
  10. Æsir
  11. Æsop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Æsculapian (page history and authors); Aesculapian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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