Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
doctoress .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A female doctor.
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- noun obsolete A
female doctor .
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Examples
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Indeed, some of these women attained the designation of "doctress" in official reports of the day.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Again and again Borrow, throughout his life, suffered from some nervous ailment which defied definition; thus, when he was fifteen, his strength and appetite deserted him and he pined and drooped, but an ancient female, a kind of doctress, who had been his nurse in his infancy, gave him a decoction of a bitter root growing on commons and desolate places, from which he took draughts till he was convalescent.
Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 James Hooper
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The wife of Edward Good was sought out in 1678 to cure a head sore and another "doctress" impressed the
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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A 'doctress' was one who used African herbal remedies to heal the sick and afflicted.
Voice Online 2009
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857), she stated her father to be a soldier of Scottish descent (possibly James Grant of the 60th Regiment of Foot) and her Creole mother to be the keeper of a Kingston hotel, Blundell Hall, and a well respected 'doctress', skilled in the traditional African use of herbal remedies.
OUPblog 2008
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"ancient female, a kind of doctress," with a decoction of "a bitter root which grows on commons and desolate places."
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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Atleast that old ass bitch doctress has no nazi rule here.
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There were sixteen men in pursuit of the doctress, and sixteen gun-shot wounds were found in her body when examined by the surgeon of the post.
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Finally these peculiar customs brought about the punishment of a noted doctress of the Rogue River tribe, a woman who was constantly working in this professional way, and who had found a victim of such prominence among the Rogue Rivers that his unlooked for death brought down on her the wrath of all.
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