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Doctor   /dˈɑktər/  /dˈɔktər/   Listen
noun
doctor  n.  
1.
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. (Obs.) "One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel."
2.
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.
3.
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."
4.
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.
5.
(Zool.) The friar skate. (Prov. Eng.)
Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine.
Doctor fish (Zool.), 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.


verb
Doctor  v. t.  (past & past part. doctored; pres. part. doctoring)  
1.
To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. (Colloq.)
2.
To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
3.
To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. (Slang)


Doctor  v. i.  To practice physic. (Colloq.)





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"Doctor" Quotes from Famous Books



... an exact Description of the Circulation of the Blood, discovered long before King Solomon's Allegory of the Bucket's going to the Well; with several curious Methods by which the Demonstration was to be made so plain, as would make even the worthy Doctor B——— himself become a Convert to his own Eye-sight, make him damn his own Elaborate Book, and think it worse Nonsence than ever the Town had ...
— The Consolidator • Daniel Defoe
... practical arguments in favour of vegetarianism. Meat-eaters often boast of the plainness of their food, and yet wonder that they suffer in health. It is not an uncommon thing for a man to consult his doctor and to tell him, "I live very simply, nothing ...
— Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery - A Manual Of Cheap And Wholesome Diet • A. G. Payne
... in College hall The Doctor stretched the hours, But in each pause we heard the call Of ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... some:—Must we cease to fear God and to hope in Him? What, then, becomes of acts of holy fear, and of the virtue of hope? If a mother were to abuse the doctor who had restored her child to life, would it not excite a strong suspicion that it was she herself who had attempted to smother it? Did not she who said to Solomon: Let it be divided,[2] show herself to be the false mother? They who are so much attached to servile fear can have no real desire ...
— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus
... way—particularly addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages!" As though her collar was suddenly too tight she rammed her finger down between her stiff white neck-band and her soft white throat. "He was a—New York doctor!" she hastened somewhat airily to explain. "Gee! But he was a swell! And he was spending his summer holiday up in the same Maine town where I was tending soda fountain. And he used to drop into the drug-store, nights, after cigars and things. And he used to tell me stories about the drugs and ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


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