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doctorizing

doctorizing is the present participle and gerund of doctorize.

Meaning of doctorize

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

Questions about doctorizing

What is doctorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Doctorizing is the present participle and gerund of doctorize.

Words near doctorizing in the dictionary

  1. doctorish
  2. doctorishness
  3. doctorize
  4. doctorized
  5. doctorizes
  6. doctorizing
  7. doctorless
  8. doctorlike
  9. doctorling
  10. doctorlings
  11. doctorly

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