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medicasters

medicasters is the plural of medicaster.

Meaning of medicaster

Noun

medicaster (plural medicasters)

  1. (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....
    Synonyms:
    quack, quacksalver

Questions about medicasters

What is medicasters the plural of?
Medicasters is the plural of medicaster.

Words near medicasters in the dictionary

  1. medicant
  2. medicants
  3. medicare
  4. medicarpin
  5. medicaster
  6. medicasters
  7. medicate
  8. medicated
  9. medicates
  10. medicating
  11. medication

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