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Frankensteinian doctor en · NOUN

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1. (figuratively, uncommon) Synonym of mad scientist.
   • The college is situated in a castle where, legend has it, vampire Radu — Rusty's look-alike — terrorized villagers alongside bloodsucking minions and a sorceress, whose spirit is accidentally released to possess student Lynne (Jennifer Lyons) just as the Count & Co. return home. Faculty includes a vampire huntress (Musetta Vander) and a Frankensteinian doctor (David Steinberg). 2009 December 14, Dennis Harvey, “TRANSYLMANIA”, in Variety, volume 417, number 5, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 30:
   • THE STEEL EXAMINING TABLE By Patty Martori at Pat Hearn Gallery is clinical and severe, except for the fringe of dark human hair that circles its edge. An experiment gone haywire? A Frankensteinian doctor's office? 1989, Kay Larson, “The Flux Stops Here”, in New York Magazine, volume 22, number 9, page 150:
   • So what is psychiatry's real purpose? Are psychiatrists by nature evil frankensteinian doctors? No. But their medical degree has partiallly blinded them to other, simpler explanations, such as social causes and constructs of mental illness and mental disorders, and in alternative ways of dealing with them. 1998 February 19, Magnulus, “Why Mental Illness is a Myth. A Primer.”, in alt.support.survivors.prozac (Usenet):
   • As I said, for the minute number of people who do actually require treatment, I have full support and best wishes. However, I have nothing but anger for the Frankensteinian doctors who want to push young, vulnerable children towards drugs that treat aggressive cancers and surgery that will prevent them from ever being able to have a normal sex life. 2023, boltonwanderer87, Reddit:
   • A Frankensteinian doctor (played by Graham Crowden, building on a character seen in O Lucky Man) is busy creating a new transplanted creature and crying, "Only a new human being of pure brain, freed from the shackles of the body, the fetters of feeling, can lead man forward into the new era." 1982, Michael Billington, “Lindsay Anderson Brews Some Chaos”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page 19:
   • Instead of using the slow process of allowing a cloned creature to be born and grow naturally, Cormac and Marianne Wibberley's sceenplay has billionaire industrialist Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) knocking out human clones from pre-sculptured models so that his Frankensteinian doctor, Graham Weir (Robert Duvall), can simply implant the DNA into the models, allowing them to spring quickly to mature life. 2000 November 10, Harvey S. Karten, “Review: The 6th Day (2000)”, in rec.arts.movies.reviews (Usenet):
   • In Silence of the Lambs, as Halberstam writes, "cannibalized its genre," then The Skin I Live In cannibalizes a whole series of generic and often gothic influences, mashing up elements from Hitchcock to Bluebeard, gothic mansion to torturing villain, rape-revenge movies to Frankensteinian doctor/scientist imagery, and Pygmalion to Louise Bourgeois-like rag dolls. 2018, Jolene Zigarovich (editor), TransGothic in Literature and Culture, page 164:
   • Frankensteinian doctor and contemporary artist figure who wants to create a man who will be equal without being a threat), the bewilderment of Katherine/the Man and her/his refusal to embrace this particular "brave new world." 1993, University of Western Ontario, Department of English (contributor), Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada, numbers 9-10, page 33:
   • Again, the collection of body parts was not a secret conspiracy dreamed up by Frankensteinian doctors, although it is nearly impossible to reconcile with Canadians' perception of the fallen soldiers at the time and ever since. 2022, Tim Cook, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers, Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War, page 458:
   • No, I'm not. A pregnant person isn't a Frankensteinian doctor, intentionally and purposefully creating life with their own hands and inserting it. 2024, BwanaAzungu, Reddit:

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mad scientist