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DOCTOR, n. [L., to teach.]

1. A teacher.

There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. Acts 5.

2. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practice and teach it, as a doctor in divinity, in physic, in law; or according to modern usage, ad person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of doctor is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians, as a professional degree.

3. A learned man; a man skilled in a profession; a man of erudition.

4. A physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.

5. The title, doctor, is given to certain fathers of the church whose opinions are received as authorities, and in the Greek church, it is given to a particular officer who interprets the scriptures.

Doctors Commons, the college of civilians in London.

DOCTOR, v.t. To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]

DOCTOR, v.i. To practice physic. [Not elegant.]



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DOCTOR, n. [L., to teach.]

1. A teacher.

There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. Acts 5.

2. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practice and teach it, as a doctor in divinity, in physic, in law; or according to modern usage, ad person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of doctor is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians, as a professional degree.

3. A learned man; a man skilled in a profession; a man of erudition.

4. A physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.

5. The title, doctor, is given to certain fathers of the church whose opinions are received as authorities, and in the Greek church, it is given to a particular officer who interprets the scriptures.

Doctors Commons, the college of civilians in London.

DOCTOR, v.t. To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]

DOCTOR, v.i. To practice physic. [Not elegant.]


DOC'TOR, n. [L. from doceo, to teach.]

  1. A teacher. There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. – Acts v.
  2. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practice and teach it; as, a doctor in divinity, in physic, in law; or according to modern usage, a person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of doctor is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians, as a professional degree.
  3. A learned man; a man skilled in a profession; a man of erudition. – Dryden. Digby.
  4. A physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.
  5. The title, doctor, is given to certain fathers of the church whose opinions are received as authorities, and in the Greek church, it is given to a particular officer who interprets the Scriptures. – Encyc. Doctor's Commons, the college of civilians in London.

DOC'TOR, v.i.

To practice physic. [Not elegant.]


DOC'TOR, v.t.

To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]


Doc"tor
  1. A teacher] one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.

    [Obs.]

    One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon.

  2. To treat as a physician does] to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

    [Colloq.]
  3. To practice physic.

    [Colloq.]
  4. An academical title, originally meaning a man 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.
  5. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
  6. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

    By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
    Will seize the doctor too.     Shak.

  7. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

    [Slang]
  8. 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.
  9. The friar skate.

    [Prov. Eng.]

    Doctors' Commons. See under Commons. -- Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. G. Eliot. -- Doctor fish (Zoöl.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

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Doctor

DOCTOR, noun [Latin , to teach.]

1. A teacher.

There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. Acts 5:34.

2. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practice and teach it, as a doctor in divinity, in physic, in law; or according to modern usage, ad person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of doctor is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians, as a professional degree.

3. A learned man; a man skilled in a profession; a man of erudition.

4. A physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.

5. The title, doctor is given to certain fathers of the church whose opinions are received as authorities, and in the Greek church, it is given to a particular officer who interprets the scriptures.

DOCTORs Commons, the college of civilians in London.

DOCTOR, verb transitive To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]

DOCTOR, verb intransitive To practice physic. [Not elegant.]

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