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physitian

physitian is the obsolete form of physician.

Meaning of physician

Noun

physician (plural physicians)

  1. A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
    • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
    • The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice[…].1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    doctor

Forms of physitian

pluralphysitians

Questions about physitian

What is physitian the obsolete form of?
Physitian is the obsolete form of physician.

Words near physitian in the dictionary

  1. physisorptions
  2. physitheism
  3. physitheist
  4. physitheistic
  5. physitheists
  6. physitian
  7. physitians
  8. physiurgic
  9. physiurgy
  10. physnomie
  11. physnomies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: physitian (page history and authors); physician (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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