Word Meanings - DOCTORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.

Related words: (words related to DOCTORATE)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• 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.
• TITLE-PAGE
  The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.
• DOCTORESS
  A female doctor.
• DEGREE
  A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
• DOCTORALLY
  In the manner of a doctor.
• DOCTORSHIP
  Doctorate. Clarendon.
• 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
• TITLE
  The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book. 4. A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. , a chapter or division of a law book. 5. An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or
• UNTITLED
  1. Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction. Spenser. 2. Being without title or right; not entitled. Shak.
• CATCH TITLE
  A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
• INTITLE
  See ENTITLE
• 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.
• MISTITLE
  To call by a wrong title.
• OVERTITLE
  To give too high a title to.
• DISTITLE
  To deprive of title or right. B. Jonson.
• DISENTITLE
  To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.
• ENTITLE
  1. To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable." That which . . . we entitle patience. Shak.