Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or like a learned man; scholarly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Like a doctor or learned man.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In the manner of a
doctor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm reluctant to say too much about it, or even to explain it let's just say that a combination of doctorly advice and husbandly heroism and sheer desperation and luck and blessedness probably have much to do with it.
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It is also doctorly in the sense that Obama thinks about the body politic as a whole thing.
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SM goes on to commiserate with Gunn over the pneumonia he had mentioned he was recovering from, gives him some doctorly admonishments to rest up and kvetches about his own ailments.
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SM goes on to commiserate with Gunn over the pneumonia he had mentioned he was recovering from, gives him some doctorly admonishments to rest up and kvetches about his own ailments.
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I will suggest that listening is a doctorly skill, as is noticing, and then responding at just the right level.
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I'm reluctant to say too much about it, or even to explain it let's just say that a combination of doctorly advice and husbandly heroism and sheer desperation and luck and blessedness probably have much to do with it.
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I will suggest that listening is a doctorly skill, as is noticing, and then responding at just the right level.
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YET ANOTHER endless, mind-numbing forty-seven page long blurb from victoria, who day in and day out thinks her uppity, doctorly opinions are welcome, relavant, superior, not coma-inducing...
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He didn't call me doctor though, I think they only do it when I'm leaving the office and it looks more doctorly of me, not when i'm just walking around Mwanza like any old schlep.
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He didn't call me doctor though, I think they only do it when I'm leaving the office and it looks more doctorly of me, not when i'm just walking around Mwanza like any old schlep.
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