doctorial
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He treats nature as the old philosophers, as the seven wise masters did,—and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us; and they have some doctorial skill.
From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
He was old and helpless, and no doubt getting to be imbecile—at least, in his doctorial eyes; and if he would but neglect to make another!
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville
And now that you know how happily circumstanced I am as to environment your doctorial demand is for something as to the behavior of the organs and nerves which we call the physical man.
From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Wall, Louise Herrick
Having obtained his doctorial hat, he travelled through Europe practising necromancy and acquiring a thoroughly bad reputation.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
He bethought him of replying in his doctorial tongue.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
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