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Definition of Doctorly
1. a. Like a doctor or learned man.
Definition of Doctorly
1. Adverb. In the manner of a doctor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doctorly
1. doctor [adj] - See also: doctor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doctorly
Literary usage of Doctorly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of Its History from the Earliest by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1904)
"... the heads of their university (they were great heads of certainty) met him in
their hooded hypocrisy and doctorly accoutrements, secundum formam statuti ..."
2. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"... and fright had sent it off. I met him afterward in Cincinnati. He shook me
warmly by the hand, and thanked me for my doctorly care, ..."
3. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
""After they had read," says Foxe, "and well perused the same, the doctorly prelates
were no more so often invited to the house, neither had they the cheer ..."
4. The Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L., LL. D. by William Richard Wood Stephens (1895)
"10.9 am—I am still writing upstairs, in a gown scarlet but not doctorly. ...
I don't know exactly how those things got into ..."
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