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. [Slang]
Doctor
(Doc"tor), v. i. To practice physic. [Colloq.]
Doctoral
(Doc"tor*al), a. [Cf. F. doctoral.] Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.
Doctoral habit and square cap.
Wood. Doctorally
(Doc"tor*al*ly), adv. In the manner of a doctor.[R.]
Doctorate
(Doc"tor*ate) n. [Cf. F. doctorat.] The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
Doctorate
(Doc"tor*ate) v. t. To make (one) a doctor.
He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated.
Fuller. Doctoress
(Doc"tor*ess), n. A female doctor.[R.]
Doctorly
(Doc"tor*ly), a. Like a doctor or learned man. [Obs.] "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.
Doctorship
(Doc"tor*ship), n. Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.
Doctress
(Doc"tress) n. A female doctor. [R.]
Doctrinable
(Doc"tri*na*ble) a. Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Doctrinaire
(||Doc`tri*naire") n. [F. See Doctrine.] One who would apply to political or other practical
concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new
set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.
In french history, the Doctrinaires were a constitutionalist party which originated after the restoration
of the Bourbons, and represented the interests of liberalism and progress. After the Revolution of July,
1830, when they came into power, they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with the republicans
and radicals. Am. Cyc.
Doctrinal
(Doc"tri*nal) a. [LL. doctrinalis, fr. L. doctrina: cf. F. doctrinal. See Doctrine.]
1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.
"Doctrinal clauses." Macaulay.
2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching.
The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.
Hooker. Doctrinal
(Doc"tri*nal), n. A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines. T. Goodwin. Sir T. Elyot.
Doctrinally
(Doc"tri*nal*ly), adv. In a doctrinal manner or form; by way of teaching or positive direction.
Doctrinarian
(Doc"tri*na"ri*an) n. A doctrinaire. J. H. Newman.
Doctrinarianism
(Doc`tri*na"ri*an*ism) n. The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
Doctrine
(Doc"trine) n. [F. doctrine, L. doctrina, fr. doctor. See Doctor.]
