medicaster

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɛdɪkastə/    美 /ˈmɛdəˌkæstɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge. dated,literary
    — 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, and pleaſantly.

词形变化

medicasters plural

词源

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).
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