D O U 
D O U 
(halt have no nffurance of thy life. Dcut. —Sufpicion ; ap- 
prehenfion of ill.—I define to be prefent with you now, 
and to change my voice ; for I ftand in doubt of you. 
Gal. iv. 20.—Difficulty objefted : 
To every doubt your anfvver is the fame. 
It fo fell out, and fo by chance it came. Blachnore. 
Peril: 
However ftrong and flout 
They were, as well approv’d in many a doubt. Spenfcr. 
DOUBT'ER, f. One who entertains fcruples; one who 
hangs in uncertainty. 
DOUBT'FUL, adj. Dubious; not fettled in opinion . 
Methinks I ffiould know you, and know this man; 
Yet I am doubtful. Shakefpeare. 
Ambiguous ; not clear in its meaning: as, a doubtful ex. 
preflion. That about which there is doubt, that which 
is not yet determined or decided; obfeure ; queftionable; 
uncertain.—In handling the right of a war, I am not 
willing to intermix matter doubtful with that which is out 
of doubt; for as in capital caufes, wherein but one man’s 
life is in queflion, the evidence ought to be clear; fo 
much more in a judgment upon a war, which is capital 
to thoufands. Bacon. —In doubtful cafes, reafon (fill deter¬ 
mines for the fafer fide ; efpecially if the cafe be not only 
doubtful , but alfo highly concerning, and the venture be 
a foul, and an eternity. South. —Hazardous; of uncertain 
event: 
We have fuftain’d one day in doubtful fight, 
What heav’n’s high Lord had pow’rfulleft. Milton. 
Not fecure; not without fufpicion —Our manner is al¬ 
ways to caft a doubtful and a more fufpicious eye towards 
that, over which we know we have lead power. Hooker. 
—Not confident; not without fear : 
With doubtful feet, and wavering refolution, 
I come, ftill dreading thy difpleafure. Milton. 
Partaking different qualities: 
Looks 
Downcafl and damp, yet fuch wherein appear’d 
Some glimpfe of joy, which on his count’nance caft 
Like doubtful hue. Milton. 
DOUBT'FUL HARBOUR, a bay on the weft coaft 
of the fouthernmoft ifiand of New Zealand, in the South 
Pacific Ocean. Lat.45. 16. S. Ion. 168.50.W. Greenwich. 
DOUBT'FUL ISLAND, an ifiand in the South Paci¬ 
fic Ocean, feen by Monf. Bougainville. Lat. 17. 20. S. 
Ion. 141.38. V/. Greenwich. 
DOUBT'FULLY, adv. Dubioufly; irrefolutely. Am- 
bignoully : with uncertainty of meaning.—Knowing how 
doubtfully all allegories may be conltrned, and this book 
of mine being a continual allegory, I have thought good 
to difeoverthe general intention. Spenfcr. 
* Nor did the goddefs doubtfully declare 
Her alter’d mind, and alienated care. Drydai, 
Fearfully: 
With that fee waked, full of fearfull fright, 
And doubtfully difmay’d through that fo uncouth fight. 
Spenfcr. 
DOUBT'FULNESS, f Dubioufnefs ; fufpenfe; infta- 
bility of opinion.—Though doubtfulncfs or uncertainty 
feems to be a medium between certain truth and certain 
falsehood in our minds, yet there is no -fuch medium in 
things themfelves. Watts. —Ambiguity; uncertainty of 
meaning.—In arguing, the opponent ufes as comprehen- 
five and equivocal terms as he can, to involve his adver- 
fary in the doubtfulncfs of his expreffions : and therefore 
the anfwerer, on his fide, makes it his play to difiinguifh 
as much as he can. Locke. —Hazard ; uncertainty of event 
or condition. 
DOUBl'INGLY, adv. In a doubting manner; dubi. 
oufly; without confidence.—Whatfoever a man imngin- 
eth doubtingly, or with fear, miift needs do hurt, if ima¬ 
gination have any power at all; for a man reprefenteth 
that oftener that he feareth, than the contrary. Bacon. 
DOUBT'LESS, adj. Free from fear; void of appre- 
henfion of danger: 
Pretty child, deep doubtlcfs and fecure, 
That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world, 
Will not offend thee. Shakefpeare. 
DOUBT'LESS, adv. Without doubt; without quef- 
tion; unqueftionably.— Doubtlcfs he would have made a 
noble knight. Shakefpeare. 
Doubtlcfs, oh gueft! great laud and praife were mine, 
If, after focial rites and gifts bellow’d, 
1 ftain’d my hofpitable hearth wirh blood. Pope. 
DOU'CET, f. £ doucet, Fr.] A cuftard. 
DOU'CIN (Louis), a French Jefuit, native of Ver¬ 
non in Normandy, died at Orleans in 1726. His abilities 
and zeal pointed him out as a proper perfon to be em¬ 
ployed at Rome, while the bufinefs of the conftitution 
Unigenitus was in agitation. He was the author of A 
Hiftory of Neftorianifm, in quarto, 1698, which is ably 
written and held in much eftimation. He alfo publifhed, 
A Thort Memoir illuftrative of the State and Progrefs of 
Janfenifm in Holland; and a multitude of pamphlets on 
the Janfeniftical controverfy. 
DOUCK'ER, f. [from to douck, corrupted from to 
duck.~\ The diver. See Colymbus, vol. iv. p. 838.—■ 
The colymbi, or douckers, or loons, are admirably con. 
formed for diving, covered with thick plumage, and their 
feathers fo (lippery that water cannot moiften them. Ray. 
DOU'DEVILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrict of Cany ; feven leagues north-north-weft of Rouen. 
DOVE, f. [from duvo, old Tent, taub, daub, Ger.J 
A fpccies of wild pigeon. See Columba, vol. iv. p. 815, 
—I have here a diih of doves, that I will beftow upon your 
worlhip. Shakefpeare. 
Not half fo fwift the trembling doves can fly. 
When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid Iky ; 
Not half fo fwiftly the fierce eagle moves, 
When thro’ the Ikies he drives the trembling doves. Pope . 
The.dove has always been efteemed as one of the moft 
pleafing emblems of tendernefs and afleflion. The dove 
and the rainbow have been rendered particularly intereft- 
ing, from the circumftances of the deluge. Thefe were 
confidered by the Hebrews as particularly favoured of 
heaven ; whence the Samarim, or fons of Cuffi, made the 
dove and the rainbow the facred ftandard of the Deity. 
The patriarch Noah feems to have been the firft who was 
in the gentile world typified under the emblem of a dove. 
He was a great prophet; and it was foretold at his birth, 
that he ffiould bring peace and comfort to mankind. The 
purport of his name is, ref from labour. Hence the dove 
became the emblem of peace, as well as of the perfon 
through whom that bleffing was to be derived to the 
earth. Thus the dove became a facred fymbol, and 
was fo acknowledged in the times of the pureft worfliip. 
But the fons of Ham perverted what was intended to be 
only typical, and at length made the dove the object of 
their idolatry. Under this name Juno was worlhipped 
by the Hetrurians. The firft temple in memory of the 
ark was at Theba in Egypt; and as the dove was efteemed 
the interpreter of the Deity, the priefts of the temple 
were called Ionah, or doves. Thus the Ionic worftiip of 
tb.e dove was brought into Greece, and temples every 
where erected for that purpofe ; the principal of which 
was at Dodona in Epirus. The women who officiated in 
thefe temples were called rh^Eiai, and nXeiaJs? ; which 
the Latins rendered columba ; whence Linifabus took his 
generic name for the dove. And as, among marinerSj, 
this bird was thought to be particularly aufpicious, they 
ufed anciently to let a dove or pigeon fly from their lliips, 
in 
