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Doctor

noun

A licensed medical practitioner. Synonyms: doc, Dr., MD, medico, physician.

(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching. Synonym: Doctor of the Church.

Children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office.

A person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution. Synonym: Dr..

verb

(past & past part. doctored; pres. part. doctoring)

Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive. Synonyms: doctor up, sophisticate.

Give medical treatment to.

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken. Synonyms: bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on. "Repair my shoes please" Antonym: break.

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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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