doctorial
Americanadjective
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"Because," she replied slowly, assuming a doctorial expression.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
I saw at once that the old doctorial Professor was still alive in my uncle—and fearful to rouse his angry passions, I dropped the unpleasant subject.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
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
His good faith is not to be doubted, for I know him to be a man who means what he says, though he is vain and doctorial.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
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
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