Etymology

specificker

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

First used mid-19th–late 19th c., first attested in 1847 and common in the 1860sGerman Spezifiker
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specificker · noun1

  1. German · calque ofSpezifiker
  2. English todayspecificker

From specific (“specific remedy”) + -er, originally a calque of German Spezifiker, used by Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843).

specificker · adjective2

Formed as specific (“explicit, definite, particular”) + -er.

First known use, by meaning

  • mid-19th–late 19th c., first attested in 1847 and common in the 1860s 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.
  • from 1928. comparative form of specific: more specific

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