Bedoctor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bedoctor is a verb meaning (transitive) To confer a doctoral degree upon.
Meaning
(transitive) To confer a doctoral degree upon.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To address as 'doctor'.
- (transitive) To care for in the manner of a doctor.
Example Sentences
[...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?
I'm with yearn, (my) sweetheart's too; Both of us should have a doctor, Doctor to bedoctor us, To deliver us from yearning.
Given the recent trend, the profession will soon bedoctor each year twice as many practitioners as the original total membership of the Association.
And half the neurotic, ever-bedoctored women owe their cowardly physical condition to the fact that when they were little children they were allowed to stay away from school, excused from common household duties because they had a headache or a cramp somewhere.
Word Forms
- bedoctors
- bedoctoring
- bedoctored
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include doctor, diplomate, doctorate, bachelorize, distinguish, graduate.
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