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DOOM, / [bom, Sax. deem, Lat.] Judicial fentence; 
Judgment.—In the great day, wherein the fecrets of afl 
hearts fhall be laid open, no one fliall be made to anfwer 
for what he knows nothing of; but fhall receive his doom, 
his confcience accufmg or excufing him. Locke. 
And now, without redemption, all mankind 
Mull have been loft, adjudg’d to death and hell 
By doom fevere. Milton. 
The great and final judgment : 
Search Wrndfor cattle, elves, within and out: 
Strew good luck, ouphes, on every facred room, 
That it may ftand till the perpetual doom. Shakefpeare. 
Condemnation; judicial fentence : 
Revoke thy doom, 
Or whilft I can vent clamour from my throat, 
I’ll tell thee thou doft evil. Shakefpeare. 
Determination declared 
If friend or foe, let him be gently us’d. 
—Revoke that doom of mercy, for ’tis'Clifford. Shakef, 
The ftate to which one is deftined : 
By day the web and loom. 
And homely houfehold talk, fliall be her doom. Dryden. 
Ruin; deftrudtion 
From the fame foes, at laft, both felt their doom; 
And the fame age faw learning fall, and Rome. Pope. 
D 00 MS 1 DAY, f. The day of final and univerfal 
judgment ; the laft,, the great day: 
Men, wives, and children fture, cry out, and run, 
As it were doomfday. Shakefpeare. 
They may ferve for any theme, and never be out of date 
until doonfday. Brown. 
Our fouls, not yet prepar’d for upper light. 
Till doomfday wander in the (hades of night: 
This only holiday of all the year, 
We privileg’d in funfliine may appear. Dryden. 
The day of fentence or condemnation.—All-fouls day is 
my body’s doomfday. Shakefpeare. 
DOOM'SDAY-BOOK. See Domesday-book. —The 
Danes alfo brought in a reckoning of money by ores, per 
eras, which is mentioned in doomfday-book. Camden. 
DOOM, a river of Scotland, which ilfues from Loch 
Doon, and taking a north-weft direction, divides the 
diftridt of Kyle from Carrick, the fouthern divifion of 
Ayrfliire, and falls into the frith of Clyde, about three 
miles fouth of Ayr. 
DOOR,/, [boji, bujae, Saxon; dorris, Erfe.] The 
gate of a houfe; that which opens to yield entrance. 
Door is ufed of houfes, and gates of cities or public build¬ 
ings ; except in the licence of poetry.—-For without 
rules there can be no art, any more than there can be a 
houfe without a door to conduct you in. Dryden. 
All the caftle quaked from the ground^ 
And every door of free-will open flew. Spenfer. 
To the fame end men fev’ral paths may tread, 
As many doors into one temple lead. Denham. 
I-n familiar language, a houfe ; often in the plural, doors. 
—Martin’s office is now the fecond door in the ftreet, 
where he will fee Parnel. Arbuthnot. —Lambs, though 
they are bred within doors, and never faw the actions of 
their own fpecies, pufh at thofe who approach them with 
their foreheads. Addifon. —Entrance-; portal: 
The tender blades of grafs appear; 
And buds, that yet the blaft of Eurus fear, 
Stand at the door of. life, and doubt to clothe the year. 
Dryden. 
Railage; avenue; means of approach.—The indifpenfa- 
ble neceflity of fincere obedience, fhuts the door againft 
all temptations to carnal, fecurity. Hammond.—.Out of 
DOR S3. 
Door, er Doors. No more to be found ; quite gone ; 
fairly fent away.—His imaginary title of fatherhood is 
out of doors, and Cain is no prince over his brother. Locke. 
Should he, who was thy lord, command thee now, 
With a harfh voice and fupercilious brow, 
To fervile duties, thou would’ftfear no more; 
The gallows and the whip are out of door. Dryden. 
At the Door of arty one. Imputable; chargeable upon 
him.—In any of which parts if I have failed, the fault 
lies wholly at my door. Dryden.—Next Door to. Ap¬ 
proaching to ; near to ; bordering upon.—A feditious 
word leads to a broil, and a riot unpunifhed is but next 
door to a tumult. L'E/lrange. 
DOOR'CASE, J'. The frame in which the door is 
fixed.—The making of frames for doorcafes, is the fram¬ 
ing of two pieces of wood athwart two other pieces. 
Moxon . 
DOOR'K.EEPER, f. Porter ; one that keeps the en¬ 
trance of a houfe.—He that hath given thefe aftiftances 
to thee, defires to be even a doorkeeper in God’s houfe, 
and to be a fervant to the meuneft of God’s fervants. 
Taylor. 
DOPH'KAH, the ninth' place of encampment of the 
Ifraelites, in their journey from Egypt to Canaan. Num¬ 
bers xxxiii. 12. 
DOPO'NEN, a town of Pruffian Lithuania :. four miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Stalluponen. 
DOP'PELMAIER (John Gabriel), a celebrated ma¬ 
thematician and profelior at Nuremberg, born in 1667 
in that city, where his father was a merchant. Having 
gone through the ufual preparatory courfe of education, 
he ftudied law at Altdorf, in 1696 ; but, at the fame time, 
attended the ledtures of the celebrated profelfor Sturm 
on philofophy and the mathematics. He came to Eng¬ 
land in 1701, where he formed an acquaintance with the 
moft celebrated mathematicians, and particularly Flam- 
ftead, the aftronomer-royal at Greenwich. In 1702, he 
returned to his native city ; and, in 1704, was made pro- 
feflor of mathematics in the Egidian college at Nurem¬ 
berg, which place he filled for forty years. In 1715, he 
was eledted a fellow of the royal fociety of London; and 
the imperial academy of Peterftmrgh fent him a diploma 
of aftociate in 1741. Towards the latter part of his life 
he attracted great notice in the philofophical world by 
his electrical experiments, and died on the ift of De¬ 
cember, 1750. His works are, 1. Tabula Aftronomica.■ Thom. 
Streetii, Norim. 1705, quarto, tranilated into Latin from 
theEnglifti. 2. Bion on Mathematical Inftruments, 1712, 
tranilated into German from the French. 3. The De¬ 
fence of Copernicus, by J. Wilkins, 1713, quarto, tranfla- 
ted into German from the Engliftt. 4. A Ihort Expla¬ 
nation of the Syftem of Copernicus, 1707, quarto, written 
in German. 5. A fourth volume of Welper’s Gnomo- 
nics, 1708, folio, written in German. 6. Introduction to 
Geography, for Homan’s Atlas, 1714, 1716, folio, in 
German. 7. The fame work in Latin, 1731. 8. A Con¬ 
tinuation of Bion on Mathematical Inftruments, 1717, 
quarto. 9. A Second Continuation of Bion, 1720. 10. 
General Method of tracing out large Sun-dials, 1719, 
folio, in German. 11. Nova Metkodus parandi Sciatcrica 
Solaria, 1720, quarto. 12. An Hiftorical Account of the 
Mathematicians and Artiftsof Nuremberg, 1730, folio, in 
German. 33. Phyfica Experiments illvfrata, 1741, quarto.. 
14. Atlas Calcfis, in quo XXX Tabula: Afronomica ari inefa 
continentur, 1742, folio. 14. The Phenomena of Eledh i- 
city, &c. in German. 
DOP'PER,/. [from dop, old Englifh, for dip.~\ An 
anabaptift.—Ha’ you doppers? —A world of dappers: but 
they are there as lunatic perfons, walkei-s only, that have 
leave only to hum and ha, not daring to prophecy, or 
ftart up upon ftools to raile'dodfrine B. Jonfon. 
DOR, a city of Paleftine, of the half-tribe of Manafleh, 
in Galilee, fituated near the fea-flde. Jfk, xvii. 11, 
DG'RA, the name of a place. 1 Mac. xv. 13. 
DO'RAC, 
