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Doctorate   /dˈɑktərət/   Listen
Doctorate

noun
1.
One of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university.  Synonym: doctor's degree.






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"Doctorate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Germany he devoted himself once more to the study of theology in preparation for the doctorate which he won at Wittenberg in 1512. Almost immediately he was appointed professor at the university and undertook to lecture on the Psalms. His eloquence and his imagination, his retentive memory enabling him to illustrate his texts by parallel passages drawn from ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... essay on Shakespeare's relation to music, but without waiting for this the University of Jena granted him his doctorate on February 24, 1840, a bit of speed which must have been marvellously refreshing to this poor victim of ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 • Rupert Hughes

... diploma for a doctorate in divinity given in America was presented under the seal of Harvard College to Mr. Increase Mather, the President of that institution, in the year 1692.—Peirce's Hist. Harv. Univ., App., ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

... a frozen mask. "I see that the doctorate you claim is not for studies in the field of physics. You're not here to worm things out of me by discussing my work talking shop. What is ...
— What The Left Hand Was Doing • Gordon Randall Garrett

... an essay on Shakespeare's relation to music, but without waiting for this the University of Jena granted him his doctorate on February 24, 1840, a bit of speed which must have been marvellously refreshing to this poor victim ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 • Rupert Hughes


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