doctorize

English

Etymology

doctor +‎ -ize

Verb

doctorize (third-person singular simple present doctorizes, present participle doctorizing, simple past and past participle doctorized)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To work as a doctor.
    • 1803, John Bristed, The Adviser, page 173:
      I still continued to doctorize with great eclat, till very lately I have been disabled by ill health.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To treat medically, as a doctor.
    • 1868, Henry Marie Brackenridge, Recollections of Persons and Places in the West, page 235:
      "Enough, my friend," said I, "you have enough to doctorize the whole town of St. Louis. […] "
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