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doctress, doctoress|ˈdɒktrɪs, ˈdɒktərɪs|
Also 7 doctrisse.
[f. doctor: prob. in part a. F. doctoresse (15th c.), or repr. a mod.L. *doctrissa; see -ess.]
A female doctor. (Now only used when sex is emphasized; in which case also woman-doctor, lady-doctor, are more common.)
1. A female teacher; a woman of eminent learning; a woman who has a doctoral degree. ? Obs.
(In the last sense, doctor is now applied to both sexes.)
α1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly R iv a, I must be borne with, beyng but a younge doctresse. 1612Chapman Widdowes T. Plays 1873 III. 29 Thou speak'st like a Doctrisse in thy facultie. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 124 Who being a Doctresse, scorn'd not to be a Disciple. 1741Lady Pomfret Lett. (1805) III. 179 The famous doctress signora Laura Bassi. 1882Knowledge No. 17. 362 Doctress Kingsford..and some of her confrères appear to misinterpret the position which I have assumed.
β1626tr. Boccalini 71 (T.) Glorying..to be called the doctoress of all nations. 1689Evelyn Let. to Pepys 12 Aug., Hellen Cornaro..received the degree of Doctoresse at Padua.
b. Applied to things personified as feminine.
1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed VI. Ep. Ded., The learned..adiudged an historie to be the life of memorie, the doctresse of behaviour. 1589Almond for Parrat 7 That long tongd doctresse Dame Law.
2. A female physician or medical practitioner.
α1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 191 b, The women..take upon them to bee great doctresses in physicke. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 104 Shavings of Hartshorn is much more in Esteem amongst Family Doctresses. 1801Bloomfield Rural T. (1802) 35 His Wife, the Doctress of the neighb'ring Poor. 1879Miss Drury Called Resc. I. vi. 148 Her young friend's skill as a bird and dog doctress.
β1683Tryon Way to Health 66 Unless the excellent Lady Sobriety be their Doctoress. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 34 Let the healing doctoress come.
3. humorously. A doctor's wife or daughter. (Cf. Ger. Frau Doktorin.)
1748Gray Let. to Dr. T. Wharton Wks. 1884 II. 185 After having made my compliments to the god-mothers of the little Doctress. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 8 The doctor..came accompanied by his lady Mrs. Doctoress Savage. 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 253 The Doctor and the Doctress are issuing from the brass-knockered hall door. |