Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
hygieist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.
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- noun One skilled in
hygiene ; ahygienist .
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Examples
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Unhappily, the new State hygeist chose to apply irritants which have produced a succession of convulsive fits, each more violent than that which preceded it.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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In the early spring of 1836, a British “hygeist,” as some practitioners of pill-based medicine were called, was found guilty of manslaughter after he advised the deceased, a formerly “stout, healthy man” identified as Captain Mackenzie, to ingest 35 pills of questionable origin.
Gamboge, A Sunny Yellow with a Deadly Past Katy Kelleher 2023
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