medicaster

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medicaster

/ˈmɛdɪkastə/ UK
/ˈmɛdəˌkæstɚ/ US

Rhymes with -æstə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From French médicastre or Italian medicastro, from Late Latin medicaster, from Latin medicus (“a doctor, a physician; a surgeon”) + -aster (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance, which are thus usually pejorative).

noun medicasters

dated, literary A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge. But these innovating Medicaſters have introduced a Practice not only very precarious, but in many Reſpects extremely dangerous, and quite devoid of any one of the Qualities which conſtitute a good Remedy, viz. to cure the Patient, as the Axiom has it, cito, tuto, & jucunde, i.e. ſpeedily, ſafely, an
Similar: quack, quacksalver

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noun quack doctor

Español	medicastro
Français	médicastre, meige
Italiano	medicastro
Română	doctoraş

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"medicaster." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/medicaster. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{medicaster_2026,
  title = {medicaster},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/medicaster},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}