Meanings
comparative more Aesculapian · superlative most Aesculapian · alternative Esculapian · alternative archaic Æsculapian
- literallyOf 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
- figurativelyMedical, 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
1 more example
[…]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[…]
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, book V
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
French esculapien
- esculapienof or relating to Aesculapius
Portuguese esculapiano
- esculapianoof or relating to Aesculapius
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Aesculapian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aesculapian
“Aesculapian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aesculapian. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Aesculapian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aesculapian.
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