Word Meanings - DOCTORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.
Related words: (words related to DOCTORAL)
- RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - DOCTORATE
The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. - HABITURE
Habitude. - SQUARE
1. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit. No works shall find acceptamce . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan. Cowper. 2. To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or - HABITED
1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison. - SQUARE-TOED
Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox. - DOCTOR
1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. 2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. 3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to - DOCTORAL
Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood. - SQUARELY
In a square form or manner. - SQUARE-RIGGED
Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - DOCTORLY
Like a doctor or learned man. "Doctorly prelates." Foxe. - HABIT
habiten to dwell, F. habiter, fr. L. habitare to have frequently, to 1. To inhabit. In thilke places as they habiten. Rom. of R. 2. To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden. 3. To accustom; - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - RELATRIX
A female relator. - HABITUATION
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. - HABITABLE
A dwelling place. Chaucer. Southey. - HABITUATE
1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an - HABITATION
1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - INHABITATE
To inhabit. - COHABITER
A cohabitant. Hobbes. - INHABITATIVENESS
A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - T SQUARE
See T - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - CAPSQUARE
A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place. - INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative.