doctoral
Relating to a doctorate.
Adjective
- Relating to a doctorate.
- Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician.
- We have no need of doctorall consultations or collegian interpretations. Our senses tell us where it is and what it is. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III,...
Origin
From doctor + -al, probably modelled on Latin doctorālis.
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Derived
doctoral advisor doctorally doctoral thesis nondoctoral predoctoral