doctorcraft
doctorcraft noun: the skills and expertise of a doctor; medicine.
Noun
doctorcraft (uncountable)
- The skills and expertise of a doctor; medicine.
- There have been kingcraft and lawyercraft, doctorcraft, and many other crafts beside, each virulent in proportion to the completeness of the mystery and of the monopoly.1847, Francis William Newman, On the Relations of Free Knowledge to Moral Sentiment, page 12
- So it was with respect to the Poison Bill, which is now a dead letter, merely because it was found that doctorcraft, being the principal meddlers with poisons, they could not be interfered with.1858, Cambridge essays: contributed by members of the University
Examples of doctorcraft in a sentence
- […] for even to the latter the arm of persecution reaches, the plea of doctorcraft being that the people are to be saved from themselves.1916, William Henry Webb, Standard Guide to Non-poisonous Herbal Medicine:
- 'Doctorcraft', as Mrs Lowe called it, would, 'like priestcraft, enslave us all', and must be replaced by the cool common sense of the ordinary man.2014, Sarah Wise, Inconvenient People:
Forms of doctorcraft
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Origin of doctorcraft
From doctor + -craft.
Questions about doctorcraft
- What does doctorcraft mean?
- Doctorcraft means the skills and expertise of a doctor; medicine.
- How do you use doctorcraft in a sentence?
- […] for even to the latter the arm of persecution reaches, the plea of doctorcraft being that the people are to be saved from themselves.
- What part of speech is doctorcraft?
- Doctorcraft is a noun.
Words near doctorcraft in the dictionary
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