doctory

English

Etymology

From doctor +‎ -y.

Adjective

doctory (comparative more doctory, superlative most doctory)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a doctor.
    Synonyms: doctorlike, doctorly
    • 1920, Ellis Parker Butler, Swatty: A Story of Real Boys, page 178:
      Common folks are just men, except when they are your fathers; but ministers and doctors are men and something else, and Doctor Miller was more doctory than any other doctor in town.
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