doctorate

doctorate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
  2. 2.To make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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