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specificker

Speech parts

1. specificker - Noun

2. specificker - Adjective

Meaning


specificker (plural specifickers)

(history, homeopathy, originally derogatory, obsolete) A homoeopathic practitioner who sought to ascertain the aetiologies of diseases, focusing on the symptoms most regularly associated with their diagnosis (to the exclusion of peripheral and occasional symptoms), and who, for their treatment, selected remedies (administered in more-or-less undiluted form) on the basis of their general physiological effects, ignoring incidental and side-effects. [mid-19th–late 19th c., first attested in 1847 and common in the 1860s]


specificker

(nonstandard, rare) comparative form of specific: more specific [from 1928.]

Specificker (plural Specifickers)

(uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of specificker

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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