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acher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon.

Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.

In the manner of a doctor.[R.]

The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.

A female doctor.[R.]

Like a doctor or learned man. [Obs.] "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.

Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.

One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.

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).

Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the o…

Jovial and blustering; dashing. [Slang] "Bless thee, bully doctor." Shak.

uage, barbarous jargon, or technical termes; to talk with an affectation of learning. The doctor here, When he discqurseth of dissection, Of vena cava and of vena porta, The meseræum and the mesentericum, What does he else but cant. B. Jonson That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting hanguage, if I may so call i…

feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. Spenser. He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter. Shak.

To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]

e services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.

A common; public pasture ground. To shake his ears, and graze in commons. Shak. Doctors' Commons, a place near St. Paul's Chuchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, reg…

The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. [Eng.]

One who heals disease of cows; a cow doctor.

to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope.

versity, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.