doctorally 
doctorally (dok'to-ral-i), nilr. In tho manner 
of a (li)ct(n-. lliil;nrill. [Rare.] 
doctorate (dok'to-rat), n. [< F. doctoral = Sp. 
doctoriitlo = PH. dniitoradri = It. dottorato = I). 
ilni-liH-iiiit = Sw. iloctorat, < ML. doctoratux, 
diictorsliip, doctorate. < L. doctor, a doctor: see 
ilm-lur aim -ate 3 .] The degree of doctor. 
I I hank you ... for your congratulations on my ad- 
vancement Id tin- doctorate. 
Bp. Hunt, To Warburton, Letters, ccvl. 
According to Wood, in 1659 Nicolas Staughton, of Exe- 
ter College, was admitted doctor l>oth of civil and canon 
law; and it is not impossible that there were other at- 
tempts to revive the canon law doctorate as an adjunct to 
tlic degree in civil law. 
StiMs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 330. 
doctorate (dok'to-rat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. dor- 
toratctl, ppr. doctorating. [' doctor + -ate"; 
appar. with ref. to doctorate, .] To make a 
doctor of; confer the degree of doctor upon. 
ll'arton. [Bare.] Also doctorize. 
Even after Salernum Imd a teacher of law it could not 
doctorate in law. I^aurie, Universities, p. 123. 
doctor-box (dok'tor-boks), . In dyeing, a 
piece of copper attached to doctor-shears to 
prevent the exposure of too much color to the 
atmosphere: used for colors susceptible to 
quick oxidation, such as pencil-blue. 
There is less especial difficulty in printing pencil-blue 
with the cylinder. Thousands of pieces are weekly printed 
in America, and a considerable number here. The appa- 
ratus used is a doctor-box. 
W. Creates, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 483. 
doctoress, doctress (dok'tor-es, -tres), n. A 
female physician. 
Should you say an ague were a fever, the doctore** would 
have a shaking tit of laughter. 
Whitlock, Manners of Eng. People, p. 47. 
doctor-fish (dok' tor-fish), n. A fish of the ge- 
nus Acantliurua: so called from the sharp and 
glassy, lancet-like, movable spines with which 
it is armed on each side of the tail, so that it 
cannot be handled incautiously with impunity. 
All the species, belong to the tropics. Also 
called doctor, surgeon, surgeon-fish, barber-fish. 
doctor-gum (dok'tor-gum), n. A South Amer- 
ican gum of uncertain derivation, but usually 
considered to be a product of Kiius Mctopium. 
Also called lioa-fium. 
doctorial (dok-to'ri-al), a. [< doctor + -in/.] 
Pertaining to or characteristic of a doctor, pro- 
fessor, or teacher. 
His humour of sententiousness and doctorial stilts IB a 
mask he delights in, but you ought to know him and not 
he frightened by it. 6. Meredith, The Egoist, xxvil. 
doctorization (dok"tq-ri-za'shon), n. [< doctor 
+ -ise + -<wn.] The ceremony of investing 
a candidate for the doctorate with the doctor's 
hood. 
doctorize (dok'tor-iz), r. t. [< doctor + -ize.] 
Same as doctorate. 
Lord Northampton and I were doctorized in due form. 
Ticlcnor, W. II. Prescott. 
doctorlyt(dok'tor-li), a. [< doctor + -iyl.] Of, 
pertaining to, or like a learned man ; scholarly. 
Rp. Hall. 
electorship (dok'tor-ship), n. [ < doctor + -xliiji.] 
The degree or raiik of a doctor; doctorate. 
In one place of Cartwright's l>ook he spake of Whit- 
gift's " bearing out himself, by the credit of his doctor- 
sfti/i and deanery." Strype, Whitgift, an. 1573. 
doctress, ". See doctoress. 
doctrinaire (dok-tri-nar'), . and a. [= D. 
doctrinnir = Dan. Sw. doktrinar, < F. 'doctri- 
naire, < ML. 'doctrinarian, pertaining to doc- 
trine, < L. doctrina, doctrine : see doctrine.'] 
1. n. 1. One who theorizes without a sufficient 
regard to practical considerations; a political 
theorist ; an ideologist ; one who undertakes to 
explain things by one narrow theory or group of 
theories, leaving out of view all other forces at 
work. 
He [Melbourne] said a doctrinaire was a fool, but an 
honest man. Qreville, Memoirs, Sept. 25, 1834. 
In our opinion, there is no more unsafe politician than 
a conscientiously rigid doctrinaire, nothing more sure to 
end in disaster than a theoretic scheme of policy that ad- 
mits of no pliabilily for contingencies. 
Lowell, study Windows, p. 160. 
2. In French liixt., during the period of the Res- 
toration (1815-30) and later, one of a class of 
politicians and political philosophers who de- 
sired a constitution constructed on historical 
principles, especially after the analogy of tin- 
British constitution. They ,-re opposed to absolu- 
tism und to lv\Mliiti.>nar> Meas, anil were (le\ otcd to al>- 
straot ilnctrines :unl theories rather th;ui tn practical poli 
tics. Their .lii. i leader* \\civ It, .ycr-Collaitl and liui/ot. 
II. (i. Characteristic of a doctrinaire or un- 
practical theorist ; merely theoretical; insisting 
1715 
upon the exclusive importance of a one-sided 
theory. 
The whole scheme [of civil-service organization] of 1870 
and 1S75 must be pronounced to have been a grave mis- 
take : it IB doctrinaire, academical, and quite unsuited to 
the practical requirement- >ii the public offices. 
nineteenth Century, XX. 501. 
In hiB [Justus Moser's] wayward and caustic style, he 
often criticize! effectively the doctrinaire narrowness of 
his contemporaries. Kncyc. Brit., XIX. 364. 
doctrinal (dok'tri-nal). a. and n. [Formerly 
also doctrinal/ ; = F". doctrinal = Sp. doctrinal 
= Pg. doutrinal = It. dottrinate, < LL. doctrina- 
lis, pertaining to doctrine, theoretical (ML. neut. 
doctrinale, a book of doctrine), < L. doctrina, 
doctrine: see doctrine.} L 1. Pertaining to 
doctrine ; consisting of or characterized by doc- 
trine ; relating or pertaining to fundamental 
belief or instruction: as, doctrinal theology; 
doctrinal soundness in religion, science, or poli- 
tics; a doctrinal controversy. 
There be four kinds of disputation, whereof the first is 
called doctrinal, because it appertaineth to science. The 
second is called dialectical, which belongeth to probable 
opinion. Blundepille. 
The doctrinal element IB not a thing independent, 
purely theoretic, disconnected from the realities of life 
and history. G. P. Fither, Begin, of Christianity, p. 3. 
2. Serving for instruction or guidance ; having 
the office or effect of teaching. 
The word of God no otherwise serveth, than ... in the 
nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Action is doctrinal, and teaches both art and virtue. 
I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 39. 
Doctrinal disputation. Sec diputation, 2. 
II. TO. Something that is a part of doctrine ; 
a tenet or article of belief. 
Not such as assent to even' word in Scripture can be 
said in doctrinaltt to deny Christ. South. 
doctrinally (dok'tri-nal-i), adr. In a doctrinal 
manner; in the form of doctrine; by way of 
teaching or positive direction ; as regards doc- 
trine. Milton. 
doctrinarian (dok-tri-na'ri-an), i. [< ML. 
"dnctriiiarins (see doctrinaire) + -an.] A doc- 
trinaire; a political theorist. J. H. Xewmau. 
cloctrinarianism (dok-tri-na'ri-an-izm), n. [< 
doctrinarian + -i,im.] The principles or prac- 
tices of doctrinarians or doctrinaires ; mere 
theorizing or speculation, as opposed to prac- 
tical principles ; blind adhesion to one-sided 
theories. 
He [the student of Kussian civilization) will find the 
most primitive institutions side by side with the latest 
products of French doctrinarianixin, and the most child- 
ish superstitions in close proximity with the most ad- 
vanced free-thinking. D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 82. 
doctrine (dok'trin),. [< ME. doctrine, <. OF. doc- 
trine, F. doctrine = Pr. Sp. doctrina = Pg. doutri- 
na = It. dottrina = G. doctrin = Dan. Sw. doktrin , 
< L. doctrina, teaching, instruction, learning, 
knowledge. < doctor, a teacher, < doccre, teach : 
see doctor.] 1. In general, whatever is taught ; 
whatever is laid down as true by an instructor 
or master; hence, a principle or body of prin- 
ciples relating to or connected with religion, 
science, politics, or any department of know- 
ledge ; anything held as true ; a tenet or set of 
tenets: as, the doctrines of the gospel ; the doc- 
trines of Plato ; the doctrine of evolution. 
If they learne pure and cleane doctryne. in youth, they 
poure out plentye of good workes in age. 
Babeet Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 64. 
That they may adorn the doctrine of Ood our Saviour in 
all things. Tit 11. 10. 
The New Testament contains not only all doctrine ne- 
cessary to salvation, but necessary to moral teaching. 
Stubbt, Medieval and Modern Hist, p. 294. 
2f. The act of teaching ; instruction ; course of 
discipline ; specifically, instruction and confir- 
mation in the principles of religion. 
For Seint Poul saith that al that writen Is 
To oure doctrine it is iwrite y wis. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 622. 
He shall be wel taught in curtesie and speche, 
For suche doctrine schal hym lere and teche. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.X 1. 77. 
Tills art hath two several methods of doctrine, the one 
by way of direction, the other by way of caution. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 223. 
Doctrine of chances, s<>e probability. Doctrine of 
correspondences. See correnpondence. Doctrine Of 
cy-pres. See c<i-nre*. Doctrine of definite propor- 
tions. *ce n'nuiir flfon/, under atomic. Doctrine Of 
enumerated powers, see enumerate. Doctrine of 
occasional causes. See necauianal. Monroe doctrine, 
in American politics, the doctrine of the non-intervention 
of European powers in matters relating to the American 
continent. It received its name from statements con- 
tained in Pre.-ident Monroe's animal message to Congress 
in December. 1833, at the |>eriod of a suspected concert of 
the iiuers in the Holy Alliance to interfere in Spanish 
America in behalf of Spain. The following are the most 
document 
significant passages In the menage : "We could not vie* 
an interposition for oppressing them |the Spanihli-Aineri 
can republics] or controlling in any other manner their 
destiny by any European power, in any other light than 
as a manifestation of an unfriendly deposition toward tin 
United states." ''The American continents should no 
longer be subjects for any new European colonial settle- 
ment." 
The only thing which the Monroe Doctrine really con- 
tains is the intimation on the part of tie i 
a right to resist attempts of European Powers to alter 
the constitutions of American communities. 
O. P. Fither, Outlines of Universal Hist., p. 002. 
= Syn. 1. Precept, Doctrine, Doyma, Tenet. Precept is a 
rule of conduct, generally of some exactness, laid down by 
Borne competent or authoritative person, and to be obeyed ; 
it differs from the others in not being especially a matter 
of belief. (See principle.) Doctrine is the only other of 
these words referring to conduct, and in that meaning It 
is biblical and obsolescent. In the Bible it refers ctiually 
to teaching aa to the abstract truths and as to the duties 
of religion : "In vain they do worship me, teaching for 
doctrines the commandments of men." (Slat. xv. 9.) A> 
distinguished from dogma and tenet, doctrine is a thing 
taught by an individual, a school, a sect, etc. , while a doyina 
is a specific doctrine formulated as the position of some 
school, sect, etc., ami pressed for acceptance as iini>ortant 
or essential. Dogma is foiling into disrepute as the word 
for an opinion which one Is expected to accept on pure 
authority and without investigation. Tenet is a belief 
viewed as held, a doctrinal position taken and defended. 
It is equally applicable to the beliefs of an individual and 
of a number ; it has no unfavorable sense. 
Here [shall] patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, 
Pledged to religion, lilwrty, and law. 
Story, Motto of Salem Register, Life of Story. 
How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified 
By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed. 
H-ordmcorth, Wiclil 
Dogma* and creeds concerning Christ have been built 
up on texts taken from Paul's writings. 
J. F. Clarice, Ideas of the A|K>stle Paul, p. 2B6. 
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenet t might 
Be wrong; Ills life, I'm sure, was in the right. 
Cou'letj, Death of Crashaw. 
document (dok'u-ment), n. [< ME. document, 
< OF. document, F. document = Sp. Pg. It. doc u- 
mento = D. Dan. Sw. document = G. document, 
< L. documentunt, a lesson, example, proof, in- 
stance, ML. also an official or authoritative 
paper, < L. doccre, teach : see docile, doctor.] If. 
That which is taught; precept; teaching; in- 
struction; direction; authoritative dogma. 
For allc of tendre age 
In ctlrtesye resseyve shulle document, 
And vertues knowe, by this Mil content. 
Babeet Boot (E. E. T. S.), p. 1. 
If punishment were instantly and totally inflicted, it 
would be but a sudden and single document. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (cd. 1835), I. 815. 
2. Strictly, a written or printed paper contain- 
ing an authoritative record or statement of any 
kind; more generally, any writing or publica- 
tion that may bo used as a source of evidence 
or information upon a particular subject or 
class of subjects; specifically, in the law of evi- 
dence, anything bearing a legible or significant 
inscription or legend; anything that may be 
read as communicating an idea (including thus 
a tombstone, a seal, a coin, a sign-board, etc., 
as well as paper writings). 
Saint Luke professes not to write as an eye-witness, but 
to have investigated the original of every account which 
he delivers : in other words, to have collected them from 
such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be 
authentic. Paley, Evidences, viii. 
Document bill, a bill of exchange accompanied by a 
document as collateral security, such as a bill of lading, 
policy of insurance, or the like, of merchandise on its way 
to market, given to a banker or broker in ret urn for an 
advance of money. The bill is drawn against a part of 
the estimated value of the goods covered by the collateral 
security. Used especially of an Indian bill drawn on 
London. Also called documentary eichanne. Public 
document, one of the regular official publications of a 
government, containing reports, statistics, etc. Often ab- 
breviated jw&. doc. 
document (dok'u-ment), r. *. [< document, .] 
It. To teach with authority; instruct; school. 
I am finely documented by mine own daughter. 
Dryden, Don Sebastian, IT. 1. 
What, you are documenting Miss Nancy, reading her a 
Lecture upon the pinch'd Coif, I warrant ye. 
M r*. Centlirre, Bold Stroke, ii. 
2. To support by recorded evidence ; bring 
evidence of; prove. Jamieson. 
This city was so often destroyed, her monuments and 
charters lost, that her original cannot well be documented. 
Blue Blanket, p. 4. 
Since the story (La Terre] cannot remain valuable as 
literature, but must have other interest as a scientific 
study, ... it seems a great pity it should not have been 
fully documented. Harper'* Man., LXXVI. 642. 
3. To furnish with documents; furnish with 
instructions and proofs, or with papers neces- 
sary to establish facts: as, a ship should be 
documented according to the directions of law. 
No state can exclude the properly documented subjects 
of another friendly state, or send them away after they 
