doctor
Definition of doctor
doc´tor | n. | 1. | A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. | | 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. | | 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. | | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To practice physic. |
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