Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The degree or rank of a doctor; doctorate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Doctorate.

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  • noun Professional position or title of a doctor.

Etymologies

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doctor +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • I hereby bestow Homeless Frank an honorary doctorship in the art of truthology.

    YesButNoButYes: Homeless Frank on Bald Britney 2007

  • Gusmao was allowed to call from the Cipinang prison to the literature faculty of Porto University to thank officials there for awarding him an honarary doctorship.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship -- not though it be of the Garter -- confers so fair an honour.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • Sovereign Pontiffs, Sixtus IV. and Sixtus V., have added the crowning point in their bulls, the one for his canonization, the other for his doctorship.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

  • But others who cherished personal ambitions for the head witch-doctorship were suspicious of each other and of Bakahenzie, each one according to his grade and consequent knowledge in the craft.

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • After this they are permitted to choose what other of the higher studies them liketh to follow, whether it be divinity, law, or physic, so that, being once masters of art, the next degree, if they follow physic, is the doctorship belonging to that profession; and likewise in the study of the law, if they bend their minds to the knowledge of the same.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • In this instance, Richards's doctorship was of the double utility of delivering us from the threatened pint-glasses, and of causing us to be considered as privileged guests -- no small advantage in a backwoods 'tavern, occupied as the headquarters of an electioneering party.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

  • The next, and last degree of all, is the doctorship, after other three years, for the which he must once again perform all such exercises and acts as are before remembered; and then is he reputed able to govern and teach others, and likewise taken for a doctor.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • The Abbot Tri-themius, of the Order of St. Benedict, passes a similar eulogium on him, to which the Sovereign Pontiffs, Sixtus IY. and Sixtus V., have added the crowning point in their bulls, the one for his canonization, the other for his doctorship.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

  • Gruber insisted that he must study for the doctorate, while Zenner demanded that the candidate for the doctorship must continue to reside in the seminary.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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