different between doctorate vs doctrinaire

English

Pronunciation

• (noun:)
  • (UK) enPR: d?k?t?r-?t, IPA^(key): /?d?k.t?.??t/
  • (US) enPR: d?k?t?r-?t, IPA^(key): /?d?k.t??.?t/
• (verb:)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?k.t?.?e?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?d?k.t??.e?t/
• Hyphenation: doc?tor?ate

Noun

doctorate (plural doctorates)

1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Derived terms

• honorary doctorate
• postdoctorate

Translations

Verb

doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)

1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.

   • 1886, Simon Somerville Laurie, Lectures on the Rise and Early Constitution of Universities:

     Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.

Further reading

• doctorate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• corotated

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dok.to??ra?.te/, [d??kt?o???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dok.to?ra.te/, [d??kt??????t??]

Verb

doct?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of doct?r?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French doctrinaire, from doctrine +? -aire.

Noun

doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

1. A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
2. (historical) In France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.

Translations

Adjective

doctrinaire (comparative more doctrinaire, superlative most doctrinaire)

1. Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

Translations

Related terms

• docent
• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Further reading

• "doctrinaire" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 108.

French

Etymology

doctrine +? -aire

Pronunciation

Noun

doctrinaire m or f (plural doctrinaires)

1. doctrinaire

Adjective

doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

1. doctrinaire
2. doctrinal

Derived terms

• doctrinairement