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单词 pestilential doctor
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Pestilential Doctor
Pestilential Doctor n. [after the title Royal Doctors with which those who were similarly made Doctors at the King's visit were dignified] Obsolete rare (a humorous name for) a person who was made a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford University during a time of plague, without performance of Acts.
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1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 42 If ever I took the Degree of Doctor [of Divinity], I would so do it, as that I would not be styled either a Royal, or a Pestilential Doctor; which by-names were in common speech given unto those that had taken that Degree, at either of those times.
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