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DOCTORATE
Noun
doctorate (plural doctorates)
The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
Verb
doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)
(archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
Anagrams
• corotated
Source: Wiktionary
Doc"tor*ate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. doctorat.]
Definition: The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
Doc"tor*ate, v. t.
Definition: To make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SCOPOLAMINE
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