Definition of doctor

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

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Doctoress :: Doctoress (n.) A female doctor.
Doctoring :: Doctoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Docto.
Scribe :: Scribe (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Water Doctor :: Water doctor () One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
Degree :: Degree (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc..
Doctress :: Doctress (n.) A female doctor.
Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law..
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..
Doctorally :: Doctorally (adv.) In the manner of a doctor.
Water Doctor :: Water doctor () A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
Leech :: Leech (v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds..
Surgeoncy :: Surgeon (n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon..
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..
Doctorship :: Doctorship (n.) Doctorate.
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine..
Doctorate :: Doctorate (v. t.) To make (one) a doctor.
Cowleech :: Cowleech (n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.
Magistral :: Magistral (a.) Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup..
Doctor :: 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..
Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
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