Meanings
verbdoctorize (third-person singular simple present doctorizes, present participle doctorizing, simple past and past participle doctorized)
present singular third person doctorizes · participle present doctorizing · participle past doctorized · past doctorized
- archaicintransitiveTo 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 - archaictransitiveTo 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
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