Word Meanings - DOCTORLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a doctor or learned man. "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.

Related words: (words related to DOCTORLY)

• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• DOCTORAL
  Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.
• DOCTORLY
  Like a doctor or learned man. "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.
• PRELATESHIP
  The office of a prelate. Harmar.
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• DOCTORESS
  A female doctor.
• PRELATESS
  A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate. Milton.
• DOCTORALLY
  In the manner of a doctor.
• LEARNING
  1. The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy. 2. The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition;
• DOCTORSHIP
  Doctorate. Clarendon.
• LEARNABLE
  Such as can be learned.
• DOCTOR
  The friar skate. Doctors' Commons. See under Commons. -- Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. G. Eliot. -- Doctor fish , any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• UNLEARN
  1. To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner. 2. To fail to learn. Dr. H. More.
• UNLEARNED
  1. Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate. 2. Not gained by study; not known. 3. Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses. -- Un*learn"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*learn"ed*ness, n.
• OVERLEARNED
  Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.
• WATER DOCTOR
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
• MISLEARN
  To learn wrongly.
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• BOOK-LEARNED
  Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.