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adj
comparative form of specific: more specific
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparative, form-of, nonstandard, rare
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noun
A homoeopathic practitioner who sought to ascertain the aetiologies of diseases, focusing on the symptoms most regularly associated with their diagnosis (to the exclusion of peripheral and occasional symptoms), and who, for their treatment, selected remedies (administered in more-or-less undiluted form) on the basis of their general physiological effects, ignoring incidental and side-effects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: history, homeopathy, human-sciences, medicine, sciences
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of specificker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, uncommon
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History
Formed as specific (“explicit, definite, particular”) + -er.
From specific (“specific remedy”) + -er, originally a calque of German Spezifiker, used by Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843).
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