school doctorn.
/ˈskuːl ˌdɒktə/, U.S. /ˈskul ˌdɑktər/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > adherent of
questionary1435
questionist1528
school doctor1528
schoolman1528
school divine1536
summist1536
scholastical1565
scholastic1604
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > Scholastic > adherent of
school doctor1528
schoolman1528
school divine1536
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xlv Marke here how past all shame oure scole doctours are.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iv. 259 The Schoole Doctours canne in no wise agree: there is Scotus againste Thomas [etc.].
1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Kings viii. Annot. 587 Who so desireth, may search the iudgement of ancient Fathers, and see S. Thomas, and other schole Doctors.
1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 93 The School-Doctors..corrupted the simplicity and purity of Christian Religion, by blending the Placits of Aristotle with the Articles of Faith.
1712 E. Warren Antidote against Arianism v. 50 The Things suggested..not only by the lighter School-Doctors, but solidest Divines, and even by learned and admirable Bishops.
1765 ‘Rabby Shylock’ Jew Apologist v. 205 The name of magistri, which school doctors went by.
1841 Times 21 Dec. 3/5 Such too, it seems, was the approved opinion of some of the school doctors, that the order of bishops..may be propagated by the Presbyters.
1885 Evangelical Repository 3 122 He had been famous at Cambridge as a ‘school doctor’, and was learned in ‘the fathers’; but to neither of these sources was he much indebted for his ‘theology of the pulpit’.
2. Scottish. An assistant teacher in a school. Now rare (historical in later use).
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > teacher's assistant
doctor1565
school doctor1615
teachers' aide1956
1615 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 122 (margin) Agreement with scuill doctor.
1677 Kirkcaldy Burgh Rec. 26 Feb. Considering that the office of presentership and sholedoctor is now vacand.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) 10 The school-doctor's son..put a pipe-stopple in each of his nostrils.
1885 W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme x. 300 The school-doctor seems to have fared no better than the schoolmaster.
1975 A. D. Robertson Lanark xv. 285 Candlemas Day was celebrated in many schools with cock-fighting, and it was the custom to give the ‘fugies’, the birds defeated in battle, to the school-doctor.
3. A doctor who is retained to attend the pupils of a school, esp. a boarding school. Later also: a doctor who visits a school or schools to carry out check-ups, tests, etc., as required by the authorities.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > attending specific patients
kitchen physician1616
archiater1634
school doctor1857
croaker1859
attending1883
right croaker1929
1857 Househ. Words 26 Dec. 30/1 She tried to spare him where she could, and privately consulted the school-doctor, who assured her there was nothing to fear.
1868 Times 17 Apr. 10/4 The ‘Father’ may rest assured that if his son has been pronounced ‘convalescent’ by the school doctor this process of visible skin-peeling has ceased.
1906 R. Brooke Let. 1 Apr. (1968) 47 Dukes, the school doctor, was paying us his hurried visit.
1954 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 9 Sept. 14/1 These children are to be vaccinated by the school doctor at the annual summer round-up.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 14/1 Five-year-olds entering a Merseyside primary have astonished their teachers and school doctors by displaying ability levels equal to the average seven-year-old.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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