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- noun Obsolete form of
doctor .
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Examples
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And of that cytee was Effraym, that was a gret clerk and a gret doctour.
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And of that cytee was Effraym, that was a gret clerk and a gret doctour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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¶ The famous doctour Iohan gerson Chaûceler of Parys/takynge his groûde of holy scrypture. & accordynge with all other doctours sayth thus.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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"Item, gevin to Maister Michael Durehame, doctour in medecyne, be one precept in recompensatioun of service done be him to our Sovernne Lord, quhome God assolze, and for the rest of his feis, as his said precept beris, £200."
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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¶ The estate of a prothonat: he is aboue the popes collectour, and a doctour of bothe the lawes.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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And of that cytee was Effraym, that was a gret clerk and a gret doctour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Much like to that, which I once heard alleaged in defence of humilitye out of a great doctour, Suorum Christus humillimus: which saying a gentle man in the company taking at the rebownd, beat backe again with lyke saying of another Doctoure, as he sayde.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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Alle the vndirIusticeȝ and barou {n} es of þe kyng {es} Eschekier {e}, [Fol. 187.] a p {ro} vinciall {e}/a doctour {e} devine/or boþe lawes, þus yow ler {e},
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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1542, July or August, "Item, to Maister Michaell Durehame, doctour in medecyne, (enterit before the last feist of Whitsunday,) for his half yearis fee, £50."
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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But being carefull to do nothing herein rashly, I shewed it to my worshipfull friend M. doctour Gilbert, a gentleman no lesse excellent in the chiefest secrets of the Mathematicks (as that rare iewel lately set foorth by him in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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