doctorial
Americanadjective
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"Because," she replied slowly, assuming a doctorial expression.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
A huge doctorial hat covered its bald head, which was marked with the scratches worn by its long nails in provoking deep reflection.
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
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
His humour of sententiousness and doctorial stilts is a mask he delights in, but you ought to know him and not be frightened by it.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
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
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