† ˈsurgeonry Obs.
Forms: 4–5 surgenrie, 5 surgeonry, 6 Sc. surgenary, surigeonrie.
[f. surgeon n. + -ry, after OF. ser-, cirurgiennerie (f. cirurgien chirurgeon + -erie, -ery).]
Surgery.
| 14.. Langland's P. Pl. B. xvi. 106 [He] did him assaye his surgerye [v.r. surgenrie] on hem þat syke were. a 1500 in Archæologia LIX. 10 Yf she wolde goo to a surgeon namyd Sabastian, he shuld releyff hir with his conyng of surgeonry. 1505 Seal of Cause, Edin. 59 (Jam.) We..grant the samen to the forsaids crafts of surgenary and Barbars. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 140 The mysterie of medicine and surigeonrie. 1730 in Bailey (fol.); hence in Johnson. |