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单词 doctress
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doctressn.

Brit. /dɒkˈtrɛs/, /ˈdɒktrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈdɑktrəs/
Forms: 1500s–1600s doctresse, 1600s doctrisse, 1700s– doctress.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: doctor n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < doctor n. + -ess suffix1: see -tress suffix. Compare earlier doctrice n. and later doctrix n., doctoress n.
1. A female teacher; a learned woman; a woman who has a doctorate. Cf. doctoress n. 2. Now rare.Doctor is now used to refer to female holders of doctorates as well as to male ones.In early use frequently used of something personified as female.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > female
teacheressa1382
doctricea1475
instructrice?1529
doctress1549
doctrix1604
instructress1608
doctoress1626
lectoress1634
introductress1657
preceptress1712
educatress1800
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Riv I must be borne with, beyng but a younge doctresse [Gk. συκίνῃ θεολόγῳ].
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 1v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The learned..adiudged an hystorie to be,..the lyfe of memorie, the doctresse of behauiour.
?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 7 That long tongd doctresse Dame Law.
1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares ii. sig. D4v Thou speak'st like a Doctrisse in thy facultie.
1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 162 Who being a Doctresse, scorn'd not to be a Disciple.
1741 Lady Pomfret Lett. (1805) III. 179 The famous doctress signora Laura Bassi.
1858 F. W. Faber Foot of Cross ix. 404 She is by her own experience the grand doctress of sorrow.
1882 Knowledge No. 17. 362 Doctress Kingsford..and some of her confrères appear to misinterpret the position which I have assumed.
1903 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 11/5 In nearly all the famous colleges for women there is a special teacher, or doctress, in physiology.
1931 W. W. Strickland Great Divide 337 The most devout and devoted of his worshippers, Miss Withering—you know she is Doctress of Science or something of the sort—called a meeting in the Lecture Hall of the Ladies College in Acton Street.
2. A female medical doctor. Cf. doctoress n. 3.Doctor is now used to refer to female medical doctors as well as to male ones. Doctress is still sometimes used when emphasizing that a doctor is female, though lady doctor and (to a lesser extent) woman doctor are more common.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > female
woman physician1533
doctress1577
doctrix1604
doctoress1641
physicianess1662
lady doctor1684
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 191v The women..take vpon them to be great Doctresses in Phisicke.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 104 Shavings of Hartshorn is much more in Esteem amongst Family Doctresses.
1802 R. Bloomfield Rural Tales 32 His Wife, the Doctress of the neighb'ring Poor.
1904 Port Pirie (S. Austral.) Recorder 21 Sept. Cancer doctors and doctresses apply the term cancer to various kinds of sores and tumours.
2005 Sunday Times 23 Jan. 46/3 Mary worked as a nurse and doctress at the local military station at Newcastle.
3. humorous. A doctor's wife or daughter. Cf. doctoress n. 1. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > daughter of a doctor
doctress1748
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife of one in specific occupation > specific
doctoress1622
generaless1646
tradeswomana1652
bishopess1699
doctress1748
vicaress1770
parsoness1784
farm wife1831
farmeress1833
old Dutcha1889
rebbetzin1892
owneress1923
faculty wife1962
1748 T. Gray Let. 19 Aug. in Corr. (1971) I. 308 After having made my compliments to the godmothers of the little Doctress.
1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 253 The Doctor and the Doctress are issuing from the brass-knockered hall door.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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