Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A schoolman.
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Examples
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The school-doctor sent her home, "for the southern climate," where she remained for a year, rather frail and the object of much detailed, maternal solicitude.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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She didn't seem to know how to take sickness, though the Lord knows she's had plenty of chances to learn since her sore arm; and the school-doctor had to lance a small place, and this kept her away from Commencement where they had some part for her to do.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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The school-doctor sent her a thousand miles to another specialist.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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"The instruction of school-boys and school-girls is most adequately effected by an elderly doctor," Näcke remarks, "sometimes perhaps the school-doctor."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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