Definition of "doctress" [doc•tress]

• A female doctor. (noun)

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• "Indeed, some of these women attained the designation of "doctress" in official reports of the day."
• "Again and again Borrow, throughout his life, suffered from some nervous ailment which defied definition; thus, when he was fifteen, his strength and appetite deserted him and he pined and drooped, but an ancient female, a kind of doctress, who had been his nurse in his infancy, gave him a decoction of a bitter root growing on commons and desolate places, from which he took draughts till he was convalescent."
• "The wife of Edward Good was sought out in 1678 to cure a head sore and another "doctress" impressed the"