Meaning of the good doctor | Babel Free

Definitions

An honorific for a doctor, especially for a doctor of medicine (a physician) or for Dr. Samuel Johnson.

countable, idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“The technique in the rendition of the texture of the robes is there, but the face is painted in so low a color key as to give the impression that the good doctor has been undergoing the nitrate of silver treatment.”

“In 1746, some months after his 36th birthday, Samuel Johnson, that great literary figure of the 18th century, affectionately referred to as the Good Doctor, began work on his monumental Dictionary of the English Language.”

“It’s lucky for you he got himself assassinated before the good Pope’s Vatican’s ratline and America’s CIA high level Nazi SS scientists lifelines who operatively could smuggle him along with his two pals Eichmann and the good doctor Mengele, the SS Angel of Death, to Argentina.”

“We are presented with the orthodox view of the good Doctor as Tory Anglican, enemy of Whig and radical, Catholic and dissenter, alike.”

“Well, almost no one: according to one story, a polite lady commended the good doctor for not including swear words in the dictionary. “I see you have been looking for them,” he is said to have replied.”

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