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plural doctorates
The highest degree awarded by a university faculty. examples
third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated
(archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor. quotations
He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.
a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662
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