doctorate

Etymology

noun

  1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

verb

  1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
    Even after Salernum had a teacher of law … it could not doctorate in law. 1886, Simon Somerville Laurie, Lectures on the Rise and Early Constitution of Universities

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