unhippocratic
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + Hippocratic.
Adjective
editunhippocratic (comparative more unhippocratic, superlative most unhippocratic)
- (rare) Not befitting a doctor.
- 1973, W. Gifford-Jones, On Being a Woman:
- Similarly, those doctors who decry the operation as an "unhippocratic" act need not perform it.
- 1981, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's children:
- But the young Doctor has entered the throes of a most unhippocratic excitement at the boatman's cry, and shouts, 'I'm coming just now! Just let me bring my things!'
- 1986, Anthony Smith, The body:
- There are forceps deliveries, and there is the roguish and unhippocratic story of their development.