"bedoctor" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- (“on, at, upon”) + doctor.",
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      "form": "bedoctored",
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      "form": "bedoctored",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1887, The Academy and Literature:",
          "text": "[...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Albert Somit, Joseph Tanenhaus, The development of American political science:",
          "text": "Given the recent trend, the profession will soon bedoctor each year twice as many practitioners as the original total membership of the Association.",
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        "To confer a doctoral degree upon."
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        "(transitive) To confer a doctoral degree upon."
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      "glosses": [
        "To address as 'doctor'."
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        "(transitive) To address as 'doctor'."
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          "ref": "1906, The Independent:",
          "text": "And half the neurotic, ever-bedoctored women owe their cowardly physical condition to the fact that when they were little children they were allowed to stay away from school, excused from common household duties because they had a headache or a cramp somewhere.",
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        {
          "ref": "1967, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Suchoff, Rumanian Folk Music:",
          "text": "I'm with yearn, (my) sweetheart's too; Both of us should have a doctor, Doctor to bedoctor us, To deliver us from yearning.",
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        "To care for in the manner of a doctor."
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        "(transitive) To care for in the manner of a doctor."
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  "word": "bedoctor"
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      "form": "bedoctors",
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      "form": "bedoctoring",
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    {
      "form": "bedoctored",
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      "form": "bedoctored",
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          "ref": "1887, The Academy and Literature:",
          "text": "[...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?",
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        },
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          "text": "Given the recent trend, the profession will soon bedoctor each year twice as many practitioners as the original total membership of the Association.",
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        "To confer a doctoral degree upon."
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        "(transitive) To confer a doctoral degree upon."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Suchoff, Rumanian Folk Music:",
          "text": "I'm with yearn, (my) sweetheart's too; Both of us should have a doctor, Doctor to bedoctor us, To deliver us from yearning.",
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        "To care for in the manner of a doctor."
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        "(transitive) To care for in the manner of a doctor."
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