doctor makern.
/ˈdɒktə ˌmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈdɑktər ˌmeɪkər/ 1. A person or institution responsible for making someone a doctor, esp. a medical doctor; (also) a person or body having the authority to award doctoral degrees. Now rare.
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1648 P. Chamberlen Vindic. Publick Artificiall Baths 1 The great Doctor-makers of the World Hippocrates Galen, Avicen, Paracelsus, and the rest.
1803 J. Bristed Ανθρωπλανομενος II. 583 As it runs in the language of the doctor-makers,—Eique potestatem damus plenissimam [etc.]
1885 Glasgow Herald 11 July 4/6 By making distinctions of this sort the Presbytery would be usurping the place of an academic body, and would become a kind of informal doctor-maker.
1963 Life 19 Apr. 100 But the world would be far poorer without the devoted teamwork of such ‘doctor makers’.
2. A person who, or a company which, makes doctors (doctor n. 11a) for use in textile printing or papermaking.
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1822 E. Baines Hist., Directory & Gazetteer County of York I. 377/2 (heading) Doctor makers for calico printers.
1870 Handbk. Shropshire, Cheshire, & Lancs. p.xli Die-sinkers; doctor makers; doffing-plate makers; domett makers, [etc.]
1974 Appita (Jrnl. Techn. Assoc. Austral. & N.Z. Pulp & Paper Industry) July 43/2 The advent of the swimming or controlled crown roll has given all doctor makers considerable problems.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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