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Aesculapian

Aesculapian adjective: of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.

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
    • […]for surely the gentlemen of the Aesculapian art are in the right in advising, that the moment the disease has entered at one door, the physician should be introduced at the other[…]1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V

Aesculapian meaning in Tamil and Bengali

Aesculapian in Tamil

மருத்துவக்கலைக்குரிய

Aesculapian in Bengali

চিকিৎসাবিদ্যা

Forms of Aesculapian

comparativemore Aesculapian
superlativemost Aesculapian
alternative formEsculapian
alternative form (archaic)Æsculapian

Origin of Aesculapian

From Aesculapius + -ian.

Phrases with Aesculapian

Questions about Aesculapian

What does Aesculapian mean?
Aesculapian means of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.
What is Aesculapian in Tamil?
Aesculapian in Tamil is மருத்துவக்கலைக்குரிய. See Aesculapian meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Aesculapian?
Aesculapian is an adjective.

Words near Aesculapian in the dictionary

  1. aeschynite
  2. aeschynites
  3. aeschynomenoid
  4. aeschynomenoids
  5. aescin
  6. Aesculapian
  7. aesculapian snake
  8. Aesculapian snakes
  9. Aesculapian staff
  10. Aesculapian staffs
  11. Aesculapius

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Aesculapian (page history and authors); Aesculapian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aesculapian (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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