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doctorated

doctorated is the simple past and past participle of doctorate.

Meaning of doctorate

Verb

doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)

  1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
    • He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC

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Questions about doctorated

What is doctorated the simple past and past participle of?
Doctorated is the simple past and past participle of doctorate.

Words near doctorated in the dictionary

  1. doctorand
  2. doctorandi
  3. doctorands
  4. doctorandus
  5. doctorate
  6. doctorated
  7. doctorates
  8. doctorating
  9. doctorbird
  10. doctorbirds
  11. doctorbush

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