Doctor

dok'ter, n. One qualified to teach; a learned man; one who has received the highest degree faculty; one licensed to practice medicine; a cian; a mechanical contrivance to remedy culty.—v. /. [doctored (-terd), -torixtg.] tend or treat as a physician; to make a doctor; alter for the better; to adulterate, tamper with, sify.— v.i. To practice physic— DoCtoral, a. to the degree or practice of a doctor. — Doc'to rate. -at, -ship, n. The degree of a doctor. — Doe'tore , Doc'tre , n. A female doctor. — Doc'trine,-trin, Act of teaching; instruction; thing taught; bodv principles in any branch of knowledge; dogma tenet.— Doctrinal, a. Pert, to, or containing, Doctrinaire'."-tre-nar'. n. One who rigidly Elies to practical concerns the abstract doctrines is own philosophical system; a political theorist propounder of new opinions. — a. Pert, to, DoCument, n. An original or official paper, upon as the basis or support of anything else. To furnish with documents.— Document'al, a. to, consisting in, or derived from, etc. — Document'ary, -rT, a. Pert, to written evidence; consisting documents.