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<p><b>1.</b> <def>A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>One of the <b>doctors</b> of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. <i> Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, a <ex>doctor</ex> of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy</as>. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.</def>

<blockquote>By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the <b>doctor</b> too. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; <as>as, the <ex>doctor</ex> of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the <ex>doctor</ex>, or auxiliary engine, called also <stype>donkey engine</stype>.</as></def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The friar skate.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<cs><col>Doctors' Commons</col>. <cd>See under <er>Commons</er>.</cd> -- <col>Doctor's stuff</col>, <cd>physic, medicine. <i>G. Eliot</i>.</cd> -- <col>Doctor fish</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>any fish of the genus <spn>Acanthurus</spn>; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called <altname>barber fish</altname>. See <er>Surgeon fish</er>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Doc"tor</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Doctored</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Doctoring</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; <as>as, to <ex>doctor</ex> a sick man or a broken cart</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; <as>as, to <ex>doctor</ex> election returns; to <ex>doctor</ex> whisky.</as></def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>

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<hw>Doc"tor</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To practice physic.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Doctoral</h1> <Xpage=440>

<hw>Doc"tor*al</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>doctoral</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.</def>

<blockquote><b>Doctoral</b> habit and square cap. <i> Wood.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Doctorally</h1> <Xpage=440>

<hw>Doc"tor*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the manner of a doctor.</def><mark>[R.]</mark>

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<h1>Doctorate</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tor*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>doctorat</ets>.]</ety> <def>The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.</def>

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<hw>Doc"tor*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make (one) a doctor.</def>

<blockquote>He was bred . . . in Oxford and there <b>doctorated</b>. <i> Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Doctoress</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tor*ess</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A female doctor.</def><mark>[R.]</mark>