[f. L. aur-is ear + -IST.] A specialist in regard to diseases of the ear.
1678. in Phillips (App.).
1787. Fordyce, in Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 32. The Egyptians … had … oculists, aurists, &c. long before the Trojan war.
a. 1845. Hood, Tale Trumpet, xxv. The Aurist only took a mug, And pour’d in his ear some acoustical drug.
