Chiefly Sc. Obs. Forms: 6 sor-, surugenar, surriginare, surigeoner, (suringer). [f. SURGEON sb. + -ER1.] = SURGEON.
1526. Sc. Acts Jas. V. (1874), II. 320. The yerlie fee … gevin be oure souerane lorde to … George Leithe his surriginare.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 235. Weill leirnit in the art of mediecein and also ane cuning sorugenar.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 142, marg. Medicineris & Surigeoneris or Barbouris.
1599. Sir Clyom., xvi. 86. Cham but vather Corin the shepherd, cham no suringer I.
