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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