doctorial
Americanadjective
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One thing, at any rate, I have already done in my doctorial capacity—secured you a bedroom on the ground-floor, so that you will not need to ascend the stairs at all.
From Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis
He bethought him of replying in his doctorial tongue.
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
I was requested to sit in the chair of the renowned Eckius, and to put his doctorial bonnet upon my head.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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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