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▪ I. doctorate, n.1|ˈdɒktərət|
[ad. med.L. doctōrāt-us, f. doctor doctor: see -ate1. Cf. F. doctorat (16th c.).]
The degree of Doctor.
1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 373 Make the doctorate a stirrup to mount him to Prelacy. 1775Johnson Let. to Boswell 7 Feb., No man not a Doctor can..practice Physick but by Licence particularly granted. The Doctorate is a licence of itself. 1858Masson Milton I. 119 The Doctorates of Law and Medicine. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 651 The evolution of the doctorate as a third university degree above that of master cannot be distinctly traced.
▪ II. † ˈdoctorate, ppl. a. and n.2 Obs.
[ad. med. or mod.L. doctōrāt-us made a doctor: cf. doctōr-andus in Du Cange.]
a. ppl. a. Made a doctor.
b. n. One who has received the degree of Doctor.
1591Greene Disc. Coosnage ii. (1592) 20 One..that for his skill might haue been Doctorat in his misterie. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 15 Master, (which is the Title of the Doctorates in Theology).
▪ III. doctorate, v. Now rare.|ˈdɒktəreɪt|
[f. med. or mod.L. doctōrāre to make doctor: see -ate3.]
trans. To confer the degree of Doctor upon; also absol. to confer the degree of Doctor.
1611Florio, Addottoráre, to take or giue the degree of a doctor, to doctorate. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 261 They behoued to be doctorated. a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 237 Going afterwards to Oxford he was doctorated in Divinity. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xl. 395 After-wards doctorated in medicine at Oxford. 1886Laurie Universities vii. 123 Even after Salernum had a teacher of law..it could not doctorate in law. |