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- English Word Doctor Definition An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.
- English Word Doctor Definition One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
- English Word Doctor Definition Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.
- English Word Doctor Definition The friar skate.
- English Word Doctor Definition To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
- English Word Doctor Definition To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
- English Word Doctor Definition To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
- English Word Doctor Definition To practice physic.
- English Word Doctoral Definition Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.
- English Word Doctorally Definition In the manner of a doctor.
- English Word Doctorate Definition The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
- English Word Doctorate Definition To make (one) a doctor.
- English Word Doctored Definition of Doctor
- English Word Doctoress Definition A female doctor.
- English Word Doctoring Definition of Doctor
- English Word Doctorly Definition Like a doctor or learned man.
- English Word Doctorship Definition Doctorate.
- English Word Doctress Definition A female doctor.
- English Word Doctrinable Definition Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.
- English Word Doctrinaire Definition One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.