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Doctor (3)
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or We here give an alphabetical list of such additional epithets as were given to some doctors of the middle ages, although some of them were not public teachers: Doctor abstractionum, acutus et illuminatissirums, to Francis of Mayroni (Marojns), who died in 1323; acoutissimus, to Francis d'Albescola della Rovere (afterwards pope Sixtus IV), died in 1484; acutus, to Gabriel Vasquez, a Jesuit, died in 1604; admirabilis (mirabilis), to Roger Bacon, died in 1294; amoenus, to Robert of Cownton, died about 1340; angeliculs, communis, also cherubicus, to Thomas Aquinus, died in 1274; authenticus, to Gregorius de Rimini, died in 1358; authoratis, copiosus, fundatissimus et solidus, to Richard of Middleton, died about 1300; Doctor beatus et fundatissimus, to AEgidius de Colonna; died in 1316; bonus, to Walther Brinkeli, died about 1310; cherubicus, see angelica; christianissimnus, to Johannes Gersonus, died in 1429; christianus, to Nicolaus of Cusa, died in 1464; clarus, to Louis de Montesinos, died in 1621; clarus et subtilis, to Dionysius the Younger, of the 14th century; collectivus, to Landulf Caracciole, died in 1351: columna, to William of Champeaux, died in 1121; communis, see angelicum; contradictionum, to John Wessel, died in 1489; conspicus et plansus, to Walther Burleigh, died after 1337; copiosus, see authorans; divinus, ecstaticus, to John of Ruysbroeck, died in 1381; doctorum, to Anseln of Laon, died in 1117; dulcifluus, to Anton Andraee, died about 1320; ecstaticus, to Dionysius de Leewis of Rickel, died in 1471; ecstaticus, see divinius; elegans et factundus, to Peter Anreoli, died in 1322; eminens, to St. John of Matha, died in 1213; evangelicus, to John Wycliffe, died in 1384: excellentissimus, to Anton Cnorsetti, died in 1503; eximinus, to John Tisserius, died about 1564; and Francis Suarez, died in 1617; facundus, see elegans; famosissimnus, to Peter Alberti, died about 1426; famosus, to Bertrand de la Tour, died in 1334; fundamentalis, subtilis et perspicacissimus, to John Faber of Bordeaux, died about 1350; fundatissimus, see authoratus and beatus; fandatus, to William Verus (de Waria), died about 1270; illibatus, to Alexander Alamannicus of the 15th century; illuminatissimus, see abstractionum; illuminatus, to Raymond Lullus, died in 1315; illuminatis et sublimis to John Tauler, died in 1361; illustratus, to Francis Picenus (de Marchia) of the 14th century; illustris, or illustratus, to Adam of Morisco, died about 1308; inclytus, to William Mackelfield, died about 1300; ingeniosissimus, to Andrew of Neufchateau, died about 1300; invincibilis, to Petrus Thomas of the 14th century; invincibiiis et singularis, to William Occam, died about 1347; irrefragabilis, fons vitae, monarcha theologorum, to Alexander Hales, died in 1243; magnus universalis, to Alanus of Ryssel, died in 1202; marianus, to Anselm of Canterbury, died in 1109; and John Duns Scotuns, died in 1308; mellifluus, to St. Bernard, died in 1153; mellifluus alter, to AElred, died in 1166; mirabilis, see admirabilis; mirabilis, to Anton Perez, the Jesuit, died in 1649; moralis, to Gerhard Endo (Odonis), died in 1349; notabilis, to Peter of Ryssel; ordinatitissimus, ornatissimus, to John de Barsolis, died about 1347; ornatissimus et sufficiens, to Peter de Aquila, died about 1344; pacificus et proficuus (profitabilis), to Nicholas Bonetus, died in 1360; perspicacissiminnus, see fundamentalis; perspicuus, see conspicutus; planuus, see conspicuus; planuus et utilis, to Nicliolals de Lyra, died in 1341; praeclarus, to Peter of Kaiserslautern, died about 1330; praestantissimus, to Thomas Netter of Walden, died in 1431; proficuus and profitabilis, see pacificus; profandas, to Thomas of Bradwardin, died in 1349; profundissimus, to Paul of Venice, died in 1428; Gabriel Biel, died in 1495; and John Alfons Curiel, died in 1609; refalgidus, to Peter Philargi (afterwards pope Alexander V), died in 1410; resolutissimus, to William Dulandus de S. Pourain, died in 1332; resolutus, princeps Averroistarum, to John Baco, died in 1346; scholasticus, to Peter Abelard, died in 1142; Gilbert de la Porle, died in 1154; Petrus Lombardus, died in 1164; Peter of Poictiers, died in 1205; and Hugo de Castro Novo, who died after 1322; seraphicus, to Bonaventura, died in 1274; sometimes, also, attributed to St. Francis of Assist, who died in 1226; singularis, see invincibilis; solemnis, to Henry (Goethals of Ghent, died in 1293; solidus, see authoratus; speculativus, to Jacobus of Viterbo, died in 1308; sublimis, see illuminatus; sublimis, to Francis de Bachone, died in 1372; and John of Courte-Cuisse, who died about 1425; subtilis, to John Duns Scotus, died in 1308; Doctor subtilis, see clarus and fundamentalis; subtilissimus, to Peter of Manutua of the 14th century; succinctus, to Francis of Arcoli, who died about 1340; sufficiens, see ornatissmus; summus doctorum, to Peter of Belle-Perche, who died in 1308; universalis, to Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280: universalis, see magnus; utilis, see planuus; venerandus, to Walfried de Fontibus, who died after 1240. See Streber, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen- Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Doctor (3)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/d/doctor-3.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
