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Brewer's: Subtle Doctor

John Duns Scotus, one of the schoolmen. (1265-1308.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SubvolvansSubstitution of Service A B C D E F G H I J K L M…

Brewer's: Irrefragable Doctor

Alexander Hales, an English friar, founder of the scholastic theology (thirteenth century). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894IrrelevantIroquois A B C D E…

Brewer's: Invincible Doctor

William of Occam or Ockham (a village in Surrey), also called Doctor Singularis. (1270-1347.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894InvisibilityInvestiture A B…

Sara Teasedale: Doctors

DoctorsEvery night I lie awake And every day I lie abed And hear the doctors, Pain and Death, Conferring at my head.They speak in scientific tones, Professional and low— One argues…

Brewer's: Divine Doctor

Jean de Ruysbroek, the mystic (1294-1381). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Divine PaganDivine A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…

Brewer's: Doctor Mirabilis

Roger Bacon (1214-1292). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Doctor My-BookDr. Fell A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…

Brewer's: Doctor Slop

An enthusiast, who thinks the world hinges on getting Uncle Toby to understand the action of a new medical instrument. (Sterne: Tristram Shandy.) A nickname given by William Hone to Sir…

Brewer's: Doctor Squintum

George Whitefield, so called by Foote in his farce entitled The Minor. (1714-1770.) Theodore Hook applied the same sobriquet to the Rev. Edward Irving, who had an obliquity of the eyes. (…

Brewer's: Doctor Syntax

A simple-minded, pious henpecked clergyman, very simpleminded, but of excellent taste and scholarship, who left home in search of the picturesque. His adventures are told in eight-syllable…

Brewer's: Doctored Dice

Loaded dice. To doctor the accounts. To falsify them. They are ill (so far as you are concerned) and you falsify them to make them look better. The allusion is to drugging wine, beer, etc…