Doc"tor*al*ly, adv. In the manner of a doctor.[R.]

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Doc"tor*ate (?), n. [Cf. F. doctorat.] The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.

Doc"tor*ate (?), v. t. To make (one) a doctor.

He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated.

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