doctorcraft

noun

Etymology

From doctor + -craft.

  1. derived from doctor
  2. derived from doctour
  3. inherited from doctor
  4. suffixed as doctorcraft — “doctor + -craft

Definitions

  1. The skills and expertise of a doctor

    The skills and expertise of a doctor; medicine.

    • There have been kingcraft and lawyercraft, doctorcraft, and many other crafts beside, each virulent in proportion to the completeness of the mystery and of the monopoly.
    • So it was with respect to the Poison Bill, which is now a dead letter, merely because it was found that doctorcraft, being the principal meddlers with poisons, they could not be interfered with.
    • […] for even to the latter the arm of persecution reaches, the plea of doctorcraft being that the people are to be saved from themselves.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA