surgeoncy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənsi
Noun
surgeoncy (plural surgeoncies)
- (now chiefly India) The office or employment of a surgeon, either in the naval or military service, or in a hospital as a resident or house officer.
- Before she is able to have her own practice, she has to complete her house surgeoncy.
- 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. J—W—E., in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 4-5,[1]
- […] his abilities, address, good nature, and good sense, have got him a surgeoncy in the batalion of guards, which is reckoned a very good thing.