hippocratic
pronunciation
How to pronounce hippocratic in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce hippocratic in American English:
US
-
- Adjective:
- of or relating to Hippocrates or the school of medicine that took his name
Word Origin
- Hippocratic (adj.)
- 1610s, from Medieval Latin Hippocraticus, pertaining to Hippocrates (c. 460-377 B.C.E.), the famous ancient Greek physician. Hippocratic Oath is attested from 1747; it is in the spirit of Hippocrates but was not written by him. The name is literally "one superior in horses."
Example
- 1. By the standard of the hippocratic oath , they have been .
- 2. Monetary policymakers , just like doctors , need to take a hippocratic oath to " do no harm " .
- 3. But his obsession with " professionalisation " and " hippocratic oaths " is puzzling .
- 4. He supports a movement by students to adopt a business equivalent of the hippocratic oath .
- 5. All in keeping with the hippocratic oath : first , do no harm .