[Doctor] (lit. teacher), a title implying that the possessor of it is such a master of his art that he can teach it as well as practise it.
[Doctor Mirabilis], Roger Bacon.
[Doctor My-Book], John Abernethy, from his saying to his patients, "Read my book."
[Doctor of the Incarnation], Cyril of Alexandria, from his controversy with the Nestorians.
[Doctor Slop], a doctor in "Tristram Shandy," fanatical about a forceps he invented.
[Doctor Squintum], George Whitfield.
[Doctor Syntax]. See [Combe, William].
[Doctors' Commons], a college of doctors of the civil law in London, where they used to eat in common, and where eventually a number of the courts of law were held.
[Doctrinaires], mere theorisers, particularly on social and political questions; applied originally to a political party that arose in France in 1815, headed by Roger-Collard and represented by Guizot, which stood up for a constitutional government that should steer clear of acknowledging the divine right of kinghood on the one hand and the divine right of democracy on the other.
[Dodabetta], the highest peak, 8700 ft., in the Nilgherries.