DOCTOR Copy link • DOCTOR 1. Physician; Vid: As academical degree, doctor. A doctors degree, *doctoris honores, munus, dignitas. To take a doctor’s degree, *amplissimum doctoris gradum adipisci; *ad amplissimum doctoris gradum promoveri; *in doctorum ordinem ascribi; doctoris nomine insigniri (K.): to be going to take (or to apply for) a doctor’s degree, *summos doctoris honores petere: to take the degree of doctor of laws with great credit, magna cum laude gradum doctoris juris adipisci (Wyttenback). A doctor of divinity, law, medicine, philosophy, doctoris theologiae, utriusque juris, medicinae, philosophiae. 2. v. dare, praebere alicui medicamentum: curare.