doctur (c.1184)
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doctur (c.1184)

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  FEW:  doctore 3,112a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  doctor 9,502c TL: doctor 2,1979 DEAF:  doctor  DMF:  docteur  TLF:  docteur  OED:  doctor n.  MED:  doctour n.  DMLBS:  doctor 710b
docteur,  doctor,  doctour,  doctour,  dottour (l. doctour)  (A) 367d  

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1occupationteacher, scholar: 
( c.1184; MS: s.xiiiex )  Confondu est ordre e vet a dolur La ou l’oeille bat le pastur Encuntre nature, Desciple mestre ou sun doctur  634
( c.1270; MS: s.xivin )  A touz sumes nus docturs En tant cum fere le poun  63.15
♦ source of authority: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  (God) la (l. lui) dona lei [...] e en fist Moysen doctour qi lu tient ore l'apostoille  5
2 theol.occupation doctor of the church, theologian: 
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 )  Nostre Sauveur overi le quart sel quant il livera as docturs de seinte Eglise l’entendement des profetes  186-7
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  (Charlemagne) abrega des livres des seintz doctours  251.4
3 acad.occupation doctor, university-educated scholar (and usually member of the clergy): 
( 1382 )  les evesqes et autre prelates et maistres de divinité et doctors de canoun et de civile et grant partie del clergie del dit roialme  ii 25 v
( 1435 )  maistre Pierre Morice, docteur en theologie  437
doctur de decrés
decré
doctur de (la) lei
1lawacad.occupationDoctor of Law, university-educated legal scholar (and usually member of the clergy): 
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  le roy d’Engleterre assembla soun conseil a Loundres pur ordiner remedy pur encontre estre lour enemys; et par bone avisement […] des dukes, countz, barones, seignours et chivalers et mestres de divynite de (l. et) doctours de la lei, reprist le noune de Frauns  59.21-22
( 1402; MS: s.xv1 )  William Sandeye, doctour de ley, persoun de l'esglise de Hadham en la countee de Hertford  22.XXII.2
doctur de (ambedeus, les) leis
1lawcanon.acad.occupationeccl.Doctor of Both Laws (Doctor Utriusque Juris), university-educated legal scholar (usually a member of the clergy) with degrees in both civil law and canon law: 
( 1378 )  ad fait veoir et examiner a grande deliberacion, tant par mestres en theologie et doctors d’ambedeux loys come par ses Justices  iii 51
( 1386-87 )  Meistre Richard Rouhale, doctour des lois  ii 92
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