clinic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti
Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō
Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek κλῑ́νη (klī́nē)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κλῑνῐκός (klīnĭkós)bor.
Late Latin clīnicus
French cliniquebor.
English clinic
Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).
Inflected forms:
form: clinics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clinique
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
pos: noun
gloss: A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
pos: noun
gloss: A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
pos: noun
examples: A local community group will be holding a legal clinic where low-income residents can consult a lawyer for free.
We'll also be offering music clinics, lessons, and new product demonstrations throughout the year.
gloss: A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
pos: noun
gloss: A bed-ridden person
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: We are all Clinicks in this point
The conclusion is inevitable , that pouring or sprinkling was regarded, in the primitive church, as valid baptism; and of course that immersion was not considered essential. It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood. But why were they prohibited? Not because of the informality of their batism; but because their sincerity had not been sufficiently tested.
Clinic baptism is all that is contemplated by them, and even in this case a clinic was, unless in unusual cases, debarred from orders.
Whitby (on Rom. vi. 4). —"It being so expressly declared here, and Col. ii. 12, that we are buried with Christ in baptism by being buried under water; and the argument to oblige us to a conformity to His death, by dying to sin, being taken hence; and this immersion being religiously observed by all Christians for thirteen centuries, and approved by our church, and the change of it into sprinkling even without any allowance from the author of this institution, or any licence from any refusal of the cup to the laity; it were to be wished that this custom might be again of general use, and aspersion only permitted, as of old, in the case of the clinic, or in present danger of death."
As "baby sprinkling" is an offence which it abhors, so Clinic sprinkling is a sham which it detests.
And as the practice of immersion in baptism in the time of St. Laurence was universal except in the case of a handful of Clinics—so small that they scarcely deserve to be named—the story is unworthy of notice.
The prejudice against clinic baptism, indeed, was such that only in exceptional cases was a clinic considered as qualified for ordination.
Related words: clinal
cline
Derived words: abortion clinic
abortion mill
clinical
clinically
clinician
company clinic
cyberclinic
dental clinic
fertility clinic
fever clinic
free clinic
hippie clinic
microclinic
monoclinic
polyclinic
postclinic
preclinic
psychoclinic
put on a clinic
tax clinic
teleclinic
triclinic
well-child clinic
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