Citations:anæsthete

Noun: optional form of

 * 1907, William Dean Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, Harper & Brothers; Chapter I, page #35:
 * No inquiry for the psychological possibilities must be suffered to divide his effort for her physical recovery, though there might come with this a cessation of the timeless dream‐state in which she had her being, and she might sharply realize the past, as the anæsthete realizes his return to agony from insensibility.
 * 1913, “G. V. N. D.”, in American Physical Education Review; Volume XVIII, №. 7, page #501:
 * The boy or girl who could sufficiently acquire the contents of this book and fail to become interested in the broad common relationships of biology, if not in biology as a technical profession, would be presumably either a moron or anæsthete  !