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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"

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"Doctor" Quotes from Famous Books

... the destruction of his Eden John Cardigan sat dumbly beside his wife, his great, hard hand caressing the auburn head whose every thought for three years had been his happiness and comfort. Then the doctor came to him and mentioned the ...

— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

... wonderful chapter in Meredith's Egoist when Sir Willoughby Patterne offers the second bottle of the Patterne Port to Doctor Middleton, Clara's father—and the old fellow says: 'I have but a girl to give?' Well, I feel like that. This is the most wonderful eating that humanity has ever devised. I'm not a glutton. If I were I should have sampled this before. I'm just an ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke

... has undergone a curious transformation among the Kalmuks. In the 9th Relation of Siddhi Kur (a Mongolian version of the Vampyre Tales) six youths are companions: an astrologer, a smith, a doctor, a mechanic, a painter, and a rich man's son. At the mouth of a great river each plants a tree of life and separates, taking different roads, having agreed to meet again at the same spot, when if the tree of any of them is found to be withered it will be a token that he is dead. The rich man's ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... consulting a friend. For a man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he ...

— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism • Arthur Schopenhauer

... you know; with the highest honors, they say. My thesis won the great prize; that was because you were not in the same class, you know. I have my diploma in my pocket; I'm an M.D.; I can write myself doctor, and poison people, without danger of being tried for murder! isn't that a privilege? Now let my enemies take care of themselves! Why don't you congratulate ...

— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

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