Obs. Forms: 4–5 surgenrie, 5 surgeonry, 6 Sc. surgenary, surigeonrie. [f. SURGEON sb. + -RY, after OF. ser-, cirurgiennerie (f. cirurgien CHIRURGEON + -erie, -ERY).] Surgery.

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14[?].  Langland’s P. Pl., B. XVI. 106. [He] did him assaye his surgerye [v.r. surgenrie] on hem þat syke were.

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a. 1500.  in Archæologia, LIX. 10. Yf she wolde goo to a surgeon namyd Sabastian, he shuld releyff hir with his conyng of surgeonry.

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1505.  Seal of Cause, Edin., 59 (Jam.). We … grant the samen to the forsaids crafts of surgenary and Barbars.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 140. The mysterie of medicine and surigeonrie.

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1730.  in Bailey (fol.); hence in Johnson.

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