frankensteinian doctor

Noun capitalized: Frankensteinian doctor

Frankensteinian doctor (plural Frankensteinian doctors)

1. (figuratively, uncommon) Synonym of mad scientist.
   • A Frankensteinian doctor (played by Graham Crowden, building on a character seen in O Lucky Man) is busy creating a new transplanted creature and crying, "Only a new human being of pure brain, freed from the shackles of the body, the fetters of feeling, can lead man forward into the new era."1982, Michael Billington, “Lindsay Anderson Brews Some Chaos”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page 19
   • THE STEEL EXAMINING TABLE By Patty Martori at Pat Hearn Gallery is clinical and severe, except for the fringe of dark human hair that circles its edge. An experiment gone haywire? A Frankensteinian doctor's office?1989, Kay Larson, “The Flux Stops Here”, in New York Magazine, volume 22, number 9, page 150

   Synonyms:

   mad scientist