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Doctor   /dˈɑktər/  /dˈɔktər/   Listen
noun
doctor  n.  
1.
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. (Obs.) "One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel."
2.
An academical title, originally meaning a man 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.
3.
One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. "By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too."
4.
Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.
5.
(Zool.) The friar skate. (Prov. Eng.)
Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine.
Doctor fish (Zool.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.


verb
Doctor  v. t.  (past & past part. doctored; pres. part. doctoring)  
1.
To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. (Colloq.)
2.
To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
3.
To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. (Slang)


Doctor  v. i.  To practice physic. (Colloq.)





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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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