doctorizev.
/ˈdɒktərʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdɑktəˌraɪz/ rare.
transitive. To award a doctoral degree to (someone); = doctorate v. 1. Cf. doctor v. 1.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (transitive)] > confer degree on > specific degree
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1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 13 I meane to returne to my towne of Tripalda, doctorized [It. addottorato] thus by your grace and favour.
1850 W. H. Prescott Let. 26 June in G. Ticknor Life Prescott (1864) 334 Lord Northampton and I were Doctorized in due form.
1961 Tennessee Folklore Soc. Bull. Dec. 85 Her creative talents and her genuine appreciation of native crafts and arts, for which someone should ‘doctorize’ her.
Derivatives
doctoriˈzation n. the action of awarding someone a doctoral degree; the ceremony at which this takes place.
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1889 Cent. Dict. Doctorization, the ceremony of investing a candidate for the doctorate with the doctor's hood.
1947 School & Society (N.Y.) 30 Aug. 170/1 All of the steps in the doctorization process have been subjected to constant criticism, but not one has been pulverized as often as the dissertation.
2003 J. Wasiutyński Solar Myst. 194 His supposed travel to Padua and doctorization there.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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