Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
homeopathist . - etc. See
homeopath , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A practitioner of homeopathy.
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- noun A person who practices
homeopathy .
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- noun a practitioner of homeopathy
Etymologies
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Examples
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You may have called the homeopath to get rid of that recalcitrant psoriasis, but he keeps talking about whether you kick the covers off at night, how you feel about injustice, or whether your sadness is worse in the morning.
Judith Acosta: A Primer for Classical Homeopathy: How to Make the Interview Easier and More Productive Judith Acosta 2011
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You may have called the homeopath to get rid of that recalcitrant psoriasis, but he keeps talking about whether you kick the covers off at night, how you feel about injustice, or whether your sadness is worse in the morning.
Judith Acosta: A Primer for Classical Homeopathy: How to Make the Interview Easier and More Productive Judith Acosta 2011
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You may have called the homeopath to get rid of that recalcitrant psoriasis, but he keeps talking about whether you kick the covers off at night, how you feel about injustice, or whether your sadness is worse in the morning.
Judith Acosta: A Primer for Classical Homeopathy: How to Make the Interview Easier and More Productive Judith Acosta 2011
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At first she was suspicious, surprised at the "shabbiness of the house, not to say it was dirty, you know, just not what we really expect from a doctor's house," and, unfamiliar with the word homeopath on the diplomas he showed her, she looked it up in the dictionary.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Is it that the homeopath is the authority and the patient dare not question, which is what I tend to hear when I ask specific questions?
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Is it that the homeopath is the authority and the patient dare not question, which is what I tend to hear when I ask specific questions?
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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The Musical; and John Melnychuk, whose expertise as a homeopath was the subject of the book The Impossible Cure.
unknown title 2009
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Holliday, the South Harniss "homeopath," who had been up to a Boston hospital with a patient and was returning home.
The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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I chose to do a relatively minor change in this section because I knew that it would be inaccurate to call him a "homeopath" or a "former homeopath" because there is no record of him being certified or licensed as a homeopath.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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I previously deleted reference to Ernst being a "homeopath" because there is no evidence that he was formally trained in it.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
abcedertree commented on the word homeopath
They were useful not because they made the patient swallow what were for the most part harmful substances (the harm was little felt, because the harmful substances were given in small quantities), but they were useful, necessary, inevitable (for the same reason that there are and always will be imaginary healers, fortune-tellers, homeopaths, and allopaths), because they satisfied the moral need of the sick girl and the people who loved her.
- War and Peace, Tolstoy, 2007 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
April 13, 2011