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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Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor..
Magistral :: Magistral (a.) Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup..
Doctress :: Doctress (n.) A female doctor.
Doctorally :: Doctorally (adv.) In the manner of a doctor.
Doctoress :: Doctoress (n.) A female doctor.
Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
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..
Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..
Congregation :: Congregation (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees..
Hydropathist :: Hydropathist (n.) One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.
Doctoring :: Doctoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Docto.
Doctoral :: Doctoral (a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor..
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..
Ulema :: Ulema (n.) A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice..
Diet :: Diet (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet..
Doctor :: Doctor (n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
Doctored :: Doctored (imp. & p. p.) of Docto.
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine..
Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law..
Aulic :: Aulic (n.) 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)..
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