Doctor
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
One qualified to teach: a learned man; a person versed in one or more sciences or arts. Doctor of laws. A title conferred by a college or university upon a person distinguished for his attainments in one or several departments of learning. Whence LL. D., from the Latin legum or legibus doctor. Doctor of the civil law. A degree conferred upon a person who has pursued a prescribed course of study in general jurisprudence in a law school or university.
Abbreviated D. C. L. See Degree, 3.
Doctor of medicine or physic. As popularly used, a practitioner of physic, irrespective of the system, or school.*
See Physician.