Bedoctor

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To confer a doctoral degree upon. transitive

    "[...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?"

  2. 2
    To address as 'doctor'. transitive
  3. 3
    To care for in the manner of a doctor. transitive

    "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."

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"[...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?"

Etymology

From be- (“on, at, upon”) + doctor.

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