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psychiatrist

[ si-kahy-uh-trist, sahy- ]

noun

  1. a physician who practices psychiatry.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of psychiatrist1

First recorded in 1885–90; psychiatr(y) + -ist

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Example Sentences

In Psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen.

A psychiatrist who attended one such conference blamed television for the complacency.

A defense psychiatrist concluded that Reyes was not capable of telling the truth.

He liked to quote a psychiatrist who described MDMA as “penicillin for the soul.”

“A month before I was arrested, my [high school] counselor took me to see a psychiatrist,” she reported.

Where the portly figure of the eminent psychiatrist had stood was now nothing, not even a half man.

The exceptionally acute psychiatrist Meynert shows how physiognomics depends on irradiation and parallel images.

The psychiatrist asked tranquilly, "You can't guess what choice it is that you must make, or its alternative?"

He glanced at his strap watch, and the time made him stand up before the little psychiatrist could speak again.

Alcorn, mulling over the cryptic half-knowledge gained from the clippings, wondered what the little psychiatrist might make of it.

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