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Definition of Doctress
1. n. A female doctor.
Definition of Doctress
1. Noun. (obsolete) A female doctor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doctress
1. a female doctor [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Doctress
1. A female doctor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doctress
Literary usage of Doctress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Three Years in California [1846-1849] by Walter Colton, California (1850)
"VINEYARDS OF LOS ANGELS. BEAUTY OF SAN DIEGO. THE CULPRIT HALL. THE RUSH FOR GOLD.
LAND TITLES. THE INDIAN doctress.— TUFTED PARTRIDGE. DEATH OF COII. ..."
2. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"No information could be obtained from the doctress respecting her nostrum, but
that she had heard old folks say that it was a good thing, ..."
3. Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland: With Sketches of by Wilde (1902)
"THE FAIRY doctress. There they kept them for seven years, and at the end of that
time, when they grew ..."
4. On Intermittent Fever and Other Malarious Diseases by Israel Shipman Pelton Lord (1871)
"They have typhoid fever, and I told the doctress that I feared that the boy might
have it. Six days after, WHS worse; had great heat; muttering delirium all ..."
5. Rhodesia and Its Government by Harry Craufuird Thomson (1898)
"... THE WITCH- doctress—TERMINATION OF THE REBELLION—Is THE USE OF DYNAMITE LEGITIMATE?
ABOUT the middle of July Captain de ..."
6. The City of the Sultan, And, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836 by Pardoe (Julia) (1837)
"... Turban — Comfortable Cemeteries — Subterranean Vault-Great Bath — Hot Spring —
Baths and Bathers — Miraculous Baths— Armenian doctress—Situation of ..."
7. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the by David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone (1866)
"... in hand by a doctress— Handed over to Drs. Livingstone and Kirk.—Improvement
of the Patient. —Description of the Disease.—Tea and preserved Fruits from ..."
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