Word: diafoirus
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...Diafoirus, medecin...
...Thomas Diafoirus, son fils et amant d'Angelique...
Argan is a rich man, who, desirous to have in his family a doctor always at hand, who might attend upon him in his pretended ailments, intends to give his daughter, Angelique, in marriage to the new-made Dr. Diafoirus, the nephew of Purgon, his physician. Both Argan and Diafoirus are exhibiting, the former his credulity, and the latter his pedantry, in a most comical manner, which is still more striking by the cutting remarks of the servant, Toisette...