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doctorize

doctorize verb: to work as a doctor.

Verb

doctorize (third-person singular simple present doctorizes, present participle doctorizing, simple past and past participle doctorized)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To work as a doctor.
    • I still continued to doctorize with great eclat, till very lately I have been disabled by ill health.1803, John Bristed, The Adviser, page 173
  2. (archaic, transitive) To treat medically, as a doctor.
    • "Enough, my friend," said I, "you have enough to doctorize the whole town of St. Louis. […]"1868, Henry Marie Brackenridge, Recollections of Persons and Places in the West, page 235

Forms of doctorize

third-person singular presentdoctorizes
present participledoctorizing
past participledoctorized
pastdoctorized

Origin of doctorize

doctor + -ize

Questions about doctorize

What does doctorize mean?
Doctorize means to work as a doctor.
What part of speech is doctorize?
Doctorize is a verb.
What is the past tense of doctorize?
The past tense of doctorize is doctorized.

Words near doctorize in the dictionary

  1. doctoring
  2. doctoring up
  3. doctorings
  4. doctorish
  5. doctorishness
  6. doctorize
  7. doctorized
  8. doctorizes
  9. doctorizing
  10. doctorless
  11. doctorlike

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