surgeonly
English
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editsurgeonly (comparative more surgeonly, superlative most surgeonly)
- Befitting a surgeon.
- 1965, Borden Deal, Theodore Dreiser, Hyman Solomon Kraft, The Tobacco Men:
- Drawing his own pistol, he leaned to strike John Thomas with surgeonly precision along the temple. John Thomas dropped like a poleaxed steer. Dr. Amos had used exactly the force necessary to knock him out.