a. arch. Also 7 chyrurgick, chirurgick. [ad. L. chīrūrgic-us, or its original, Gr. χειρουργικ-ός surgical, f. chīrūrg-us, χειρουργ-ός surgeon: see CHIRURGY.] Of or belonging to surgery, surgical.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 164. Medicine is of five kinds…. Chyrurgick, by incision or cauterising [etc.].
1741. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. IV. § 3. 58. The three parts of medicine, the Chirurgic, the Pharmaceutic, and the Diætetic.
1838–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit., II. II. viii. § 40. 346. Ambrose Paré … is deemed the founder of chirurgic science.
