aesculapianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Aesculapius +‎ -ian.

形容詞

Aesculapian (comparative more Aesculapian, superlative most Aesculapian)

1. (literally) Of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.

   The Aesculapian sanctuary on Kos island was also a center of medical learning and practice

2. (figurative) Medical, concerning healing.

   Water therapy at famous springs is an Aesculapian method which recently came back in fashion, as when Bath reemerged from archaelogy to high-society spa

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book V:

     […] for surely the gentlemen of the Aesculapian art are in the right in advising, that the moment the disease has entered at one door, the physician should be introduced at the other […]