medicaster

Syllables: me·dic·as·ter/ˈmɛdɪkastə/US/ˈmɛdəˌkæstɚ/

medicaster noun: a quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.

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Noun

medicaster (plural medicasters)

(dated, literary) A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
- But these innovating Medicaſters have introduced a Practice not only very precarious, but in many Reſpects extremely dangerous, and quite devoid of any one of the Qualities which conſtitute a good Remedy, viz. to cure the Patient, as the Axiom has it, cito, tuto, & jucunde, i.e. ſpeedily, ſafely...1751, Giovanni Bianchi, A Dissertation against Blisters, Delivered in a Speech, before the Lyncean Academy at Rimino, in June 1746, London: Printed by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster-Row, M....
- The most idiotic medicaster, when he had named, or, as they term it, diagnosticated a typhoid fever, found himself upon a level with the medical celebrities of the epoch. […] If the patient died, that was perfectly simple: he had a typhoid fever to which he was inevitably doomed to succumb! If he...1853 October, J. B. Cayol, “Art. I. Memoir upon Typhoid Fever and Typhoidism. By J. B. Cayol, formerly Professor of Clinical Medicine to the Faculty of Paris; Member of Many Learned Socieities at...
Synonyms:

quack, quacksalver

medicaster meaning in Tamil

medicaster in Tamil

பயிலா மருத்துவர், போலி மருத்துவன்

Examples of medicaster in a sentence

If he recovered, what a noble triumph for the medicaster, even when he had perhaps arbitrarily imposed the name of typhoid upon a simple and benignant fever, as is constantly done!1853 October, J. B. Cayol, “Art. I. Memoir upon Typhoid Fever and Typhoidism. By J. B. Cayol, formerly Professor of Clinical Medicine to...
[I]t [opium] is a double-edged sword, a divine gift in the hands of a master, a poison in those of a mere routinist—a medicaster—a demi-physician.1866, R[obert] Nelson, “Treatment”, in Asiatic Cholera: Its Origin and Spread in Asia, Africa, and Europe, Introduction into America...

Synonyms of medicaster

Forms of medicaster

plural	medicasters

Origin of medicaster

From French médicastre or Italian medicastro, from Late Latin medicaster, from Latin medicus (“a doctor, a physician; a surgeon”) + -aster (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance, which are thus usually pejorative).

Words that rhyme with medicaster

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Questions about medicaster

What does medicaster mean?: Medicaster means a quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
What is medicaster in Tamil?: Medicaster in Tamil is பயிலா மருத்துவர், போலி மருத்துவன். See Medicaster meaning in Tamil.
How do you use medicaster in a sentence?: If he recovered, what a noble triumph for the medicaster, even when he had perhaps arbitrarily imposed the name of typhoid upon a simple and benignant fever, as is constantly done!
What part of speech is medicaster?: Medicaster is a noun.
How do you pronounce medicaster?: Medicaster is pronounced /ˈmɛdɪkastə/ (UK).
What is the plural of medicaster?: The plural of medicaster is medicasters.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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