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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" Antonym: break.

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"Doctor" Quotes from Famous Books

... Satanic. They answered very well to the eulogistic term of beef marrow applied to them by the mushroom picker who scouted my prudent counsels. I have sometimes employed the mottled amanita, so ill famed in the books, without disastrous result. One of my friends, a doctor, to whom I communicated my ideas about the boiling water treatment, thought that he would make the experiment on his own account. He chose the lemon-yellow amanita, which has as bad a reputation as the mottled variety, and ate it at supper. Everything went off without ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... "Concussion," the doctor announced. "We'll take him to the village. What about you, young man? Your face is bleeding, ...

— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... strong, self-possessed old woman, with her quiet experienced tact and untiring faculty of keeping awake, moving about the sick-bed, and giving her directions with a confidence that brooked no contradiction. Her position, in fact, was such, that when a new doctor arrived he soon perceived that the first thing he had to do, if he was to have any reputation in the town, would be to win the confidence ...

— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie

... nightmare, he was aware of being carried. Once someone stopped the group in a corridor and asked what was wrong. The answer seemed to come from immensely far away. "I dunno. He passed out—just like that. We're taking him to a doctor." ...

— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson

... now—been getting into mischief? Oh, you girls—always the same story, a man or a milliner, and the poor old father to get you out of it. What is it this time—Paquin or Worth? Don't mind me, Anna. I can always live in a cottage on a pound a week. The doctor says I should be the better for it. Perhaps I should. Half the complaints we suffer from are just 'too much.' Think that over and add it up. You look very pale, my girl. You're not ill, ...

— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton

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