DOS 
Arminians and Calvinifts called Gomarifts, otherwife 
called Remonftrants and Anti-remonftrants. Tlie doc¬ 
trines of Arminius were condemned ; and Vorftius, pro- 
feffor at Leyden, the principal defender of thofe tenets, 
with above a hundred minifters and profeffors, were ba- 
nillied from the United States, becaufe they refit fed to 
fubfcribe to the decree of the fynod; John Olden Barne- 
velt was beheaded ; the celebrated Hugo Grotius was 
fentenced to perpetual imprifonment; and other learned 
men, favourers of that opinion, punifhed. Among the 
public buildings are the tovvn-houfe, the exchange, the 
hofpitals, and tlie public library. The church of Notre 
Dame is a noble ftru&ure, the tower lofty, and furnilhcd 
with nut (leal chimes : there is another church dedicated 
to St. Nicholas, built in 1568 ; it had likewife, before 
the revolution, feveral religious houfes for monks and 
nuns, but they are all now applied to other ufes. It has 
two cabals, by means of which velfels loaded may enter 
the city. The company of tradefmen, and fome other 
communities, ele£t the magiftrates, and name one part of 
the members of the council of the city : thirty-five miles 
i'outh of Amfterdam. Lat. 51.48.N. Ion. 22. 6. E. Ferro. 
DORTMAN'NA, f. in botany. See Lobelia. 
DOR'TMUND, an imperial town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weftphalia, and county of Mark, fituated on 
the Embs containing four Lutheran churches, and three 
convents. 11 has a feat and voice at the diets, and pays 
ninety-fix florins for a Roman month, and is taxed one 
hundred and eight rix-dollars twenty kruitzers to the im¬ 
perial chamber: forty miles weft of Cologn, and twenty- 
live fo.uth-fouth-weft of Munfter. Lat. 51.35. N. Ion. 
34. 53. E. Ferro. 
DOR'TURE, /. [contrafled from dormiture-, dormitura , 
Lat. dortoir, Fr.J A dormitory ; a place to deep in_He 
led us to a gallery like a dorture, where he (hewed us 
along the one fide l'eventeen cells, very neat. Bacon. 
DO’RUS, a fon of Hellen, or, according to others, of 
Deucalion, who left Phthiotis, where his father reigned, 
and went to make a fettlement with fome of his compa¬ 
nions near mount Offa. The country was called Doris, 
and the inhabitants Dorians. Herodotus. —A city of Phoe¬ 
nicia, whofe inhabitants are called Dorienfes. Paufanias. 
DO'RY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : fixty-eight miles eaft of Lida. 
DORYAN'THES, /. in botany, a genus of plants, 
erected in 1802, by J'. Correa de Serra, of the Linnaean 
fociety. There is only one fpecies, named Doriant/ics ex. 
cclfa , found among the plants of New Holland. Dr. de 
Serra deferibes it as being nearly akin to the Agave of 
Linnaeus ; and may perhaps eventually prove to be a fpe¬ 
cies of that fuperb American plant. 
DORYC'NIUM,/. in botany, fee Anthyllis, As- 
yALATHus, Convolvulus, Coronilla, Lotus, and 
PsORALEA. 
DOSE,/ [ 3 W»?, Gr.] So much of any medicine as 
is taken at one time.—In a vehement pain of the head he 
preferibed the juice of the thaplia in warm water, with¬ 
out mentioning the dofe. Arhuthnot , 
The too vig’rous dofe too fiercely wrought. 
And added fury to the ftrength it brought. Dryden. 
Any thing naufeous.—If you can tell an ignoramus in 
power and place that he has a wit and underftanding 
above all the world, I dare undertake that, as fulfome a 
dofe as you give him, he (hall readily take it down. South. 
■—As much of any thing as falls to a. man’s lot. Ludi- 
croufly: fc 
No fooner does he peep into 
The world, but lie has done his doe j 
Married his punctual dofe of wives, 
Is cuckolded, and breaks, or thrives. Hudibras. 
Quantity.-—We pity or laugh at thofe fatuous extrava- 
gants, while yet ourfelves have a confiderable dofe of 
what makes them fo. Granville.—It is often ufed of the 
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litmoft quantity of ftrong liqitor that a man can fwallow. 
He has his dofe ; that is, he can carry off no more. 
To DOSE, v. a. To proportion a medicine properly tp 
the patient or difeafe.—Plants feldom ufed in medicine, 
being efteemed poifonous, if corrected, and exactly dofed, 
may prove powerful medicines. Derham. —Togive pliyfic, 
or any thing naufeous, to any man : in a ludicrous fenfe. 
DOSI'I.OGY, or Dosology,/. [of Docm; and A»yia.] 
A difeourfe concerning the quantity or dofe of a medicine 
to be taken at a time. Scott. 
DOSITHE'ANS, or Dosithei, f. An ancient feft 
among the Samaritans in the firft century of the Chriftian 
era. Origen, Epiphanius, Jerom, and other Greek and 
Latin fathers, mention Dofitheus, as the chief of a faction 
among the Samaritans ; but the learned are not agreed as 
to the time wherein he lived. St. Jerom, in his Dialogue 
againft the Lnciferians, places him before our Saviour; 
wherein he is followed by Drufuis. But Scaliger places 
him pofterior to our Saviour’s time: and Origen intimates 
him to have been contemporary with theapoftles; where 
he obferves, that he endeavoured to perfuade the Sama¬ 
ritans that lie was the Mefiiah foretold by Mofes. He 
had many followers; and his fed! was fubfifting at Alex¬ 
andria in the time of the patriarch Eulogius, as appears 
from a decree of that patriarch publiftied by Photius. In 
that decree, Eulogius accufes Dofitheus of injurioufiy 
treating the ancient patriarchs and prophets, and attri¬ 
buting to himfeif tlie (pirit of prophecy. He makes him 
contemporary with Simon Magus ; and accufes him of 
corrupting tlie Pentateuch in divers places, and of com. 
poling feveral books directly contrary to the law of God. 
Archbiihop Uftier takes Dofitheus to be the author of all 
the changes made in the Samaritan Pentateuch, which he 
argues from the authority of Eulogius. Epiphanius takes 
him to have been a Jew by birth, and to have abandoned 
the Jewilh party for that of the Samaritans. He imagines 
him likewife to have been the author of the feft of the 
Sadducees: which feems inconliftent with his being later 
than our Saviour; and yet the Jefuit Serrarius makes 
Dofitheus the mailer of Sadoc, from whom the Sadducees 
are derived. Tertullian oblerves, that he w’as the firft 
who dared to rejedt the authority of the prophets by de¬ 
nying their infpiration. But he charges that as a crime 
peculiar to this whole fedt, who have never allowed any 
but the five books of Mofes for divine. 
DOSITHE'US, the name of a man. 2 Mac. xii. 25. 
DOS'MA DELGA'DO (Roderic), a learned Spanilh 
divine, who flourifhed in the fixteenth century, born at 
Badajoz, in 1533. He was the author of feveral works, 
of which the mod important are written in the Latin lan¬ 
guage, and confift of illuftrations of the Evangelifts, the 
Pfalms, &c. and of atreatife intitled De AuEloritale Santta 
Scripture, folio, 1534. He died in tlie year 1607. 
DOS'SE, a river of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and marquifate of Brandenburg, which runs into 
the Havel, eight miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Havelberg. 
DOS'SER,/. A fort of ba(ket to be carried on the 
fhoulders of men. It is ufed in carrying the overplus 
earth from one part of a fortification to another where it 
is wanted. A common panier for country ufe: 
The milk-maids’ cuts (hall turn the w'enches off’, 
And lay their defers tumbling in the dull. 
Merry Devil of Edmonton . 
DOSSO'LA, a town of Piedmont, in the valley of Of- 
fola, defended by a fortrefs : fifty-one miles north-weft of. 
Milan, and feventy north-north-eaft of Turin. Lat. 46. 
N. Ion. 25.48..E. Ferro. 
DOST, [the fecond perfon of do.] 
Why then dof treat me with rebukes, inftead 
Of kind condoling cares, and friendly forrow ? Addifon. 
DOT, f. [this is derived by Skinner, from dottcr, 
German, the white of an egg ; and interpreted by him a 
grume of pus. It has now no fuch fignification, and leems 
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