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Definition of doctor

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Doctor (n.) 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..

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Chase :: Chase (v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor..

Physician :: Physician (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine..

Diet :: Diet (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet..

Hydropathist :: Hydropathist (n.) One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

Doctoress :: Doctoress (n.) A female doctor.

Liripoop :: Liripoop (n.) A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc..

Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart..

Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..

Doctor :: Doctor (n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man..

Doctoral :: Doctoral (a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..

Cowleech :: Cowleech (n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

Doctorate :: Doctorate (v. t.) To make (one) a doctor.

Doctor :: Doctor (n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor..

Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..

Aulic :: Aulic (n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic)..

Clientele :: Clientele (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc..

Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky..

Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.