English edit

Etymology edit

mercurial +‎ -ist

Noun edit

mercurialist (plural mercurialists)

  1. (archaic, medicine) A doctor who uses mercury or supports its use in medicine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mercurialist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)