† stage-doctorn.Obsolete a quack doctor who practised on a stage (see 4a) in public.
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1774 A. SmithLet. 20 Sept. in J. Thomson Acct. Life W. Cullen (1832) I. 476Stage-doctors do not much excite the indignation of the faculty; more reputable quacks do.