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DOG'GISH, adj. Churlifh ; brutal. 
DO'GIEL (Matthew), a learned ecclefiaftic of Li¬ 
thuania, taught rhetoric, poetry, hiftory, and philofo- 
phy, in different fchools, with great applaufe, and after¬ 
wards became redlor at Wilda, where lie eftabliflied a 
printing-office, which, in regard to works in the Latin 
language, excelled, according to the teflimony of Janozki, 
all the printing-houfes in Poland. He was afterwards con- 
feflTor to count Scipio de Campo, marfhal of the court in 
Lithuania, and fuperintendant of the education of his 
fon, whom, after his father’s death, he accompanied to 
Leipfic, Strafburgh, and Paris, and with whom he after¬ 
wards relided as chaplain. The period of his death is 
not known. His works are, x. Codex Diplomaiicus Regni 
Polonia, S3 MagniDucatus Lithuania, &c. &c. The plan of 
this important and extenfive work was formed by the 
author at Paris, and he afterwards carried it into execu¬ 
tion under the patronage of Zalufki, prince Jablonowfki, 
and other eminent men ; and for that purpofe he obtained 
accefs to the archives of the kingdom at Cracow. Ac¬ 
cording to the original plan it was to confift of eight 
volumes in folio ; but three only appeared, which were 
publifhed at Wilda. 2 . Limites Regni Polonia (3 Magni 
Ducatus Lithuania, ex Originalibus & Exemplis authendicis, 
Wilda, 1758, 2 vols. quarto. 3. DiJJertatio de Jure Regni 
Polonia in $ilejiam. 
DOGLIA'NI, a mountain of Bofnia: twelve miles 
north of Serajo. 
DOG'MA,/. [from Sousa, Gr. to fuppofe.] Efta- 
blifhed principle ; dodhinal notion.—Our poet was a ftoic 
philofopher, and all his moral fentences are drawn from 
the dogmas of that feet. Dryden, —The Latin plural is alfo 
ufed.—In fuch a hiftory what would be of the greateft 
moment is not fo much a minute detail of the dogmata of 
each left, as a juft delineation of the fpirit of the fedt. 
Reid. —[In canon law.] Dogma is that determination which 
confifts in, and has a relation to, fome cafuiftical point 
of doctrine, or fome dodtrinal part of the Chriftian faith. 
Ayliffe. 
DOGMA'TIC, or Dogmatical, adj. Authoritative; 
magifterial; pofitive ; in the manner of a philofopher lay¬ 
ing down the firft principles of a fedt.—Learning gives 
us a difeovery of our ignorance, and keeps us from being 
peremptory and dogmatical in our determinations. Collier. 
DOGMA'TICALLY, adv. Magifterially; pofitively. 
•—I (hall not prefume to interpofe dogmatically in a contro- 
verfy, which I look never to fee decided. South. 
DOGMA'TIC ALNESS, /. The quality of being dog¬ 
matical ; magifterialnefs ; mock authority. 
DOG'M ATISM,/. Dogmatical aifertions.—They will 
not now alter it from a pious implicit faith in the dogma- 
tifm of philofophers. Burke. 
DOG'MATIST, f. [dogmatijie , Fr.] A magifterial 
teacher; a pofitive aflerter; a bold advancer of princi¬ 
ples..—A dogmatijl in religion is not a great way off from 
a bigot, and is in high danger of growing up to be a 
bloody perfecutor. Watts. 
DOG'M AT I STS, or Dogmatici, f. pi. A fedt of 
ancient phyficians, of which Hippocrates was the firft. 
They are alfo called logici; logicians, from their ufing the 
rules of logic in fubjeCts of their profeffion. They laid 
down definitions and divifions ; reducing difeafes to cer¬ 
tain genera, and thofe genera to fpecies, and furnifiling 
remedies for them all; fuppofing principles, drawing 
conclufions, and applying thofe principles and conclu- 
fions to particular difeafes under confideration ; in which 
■fenfe, the dogmatifts (land contradiftinguifhed from em¬ 
pirics. 
To DOG'M ATI ZE, v. n. To affert pofitively; to ad¬ 
vance without diftruft; to teach magifterially : 
Thefe, with the pride of dogmatizing fchools, 
Impos’d on nature arbitrary rules ; 
Forc’d her their vain inventions to obey, 
A'hd move as learned frenzy trac’d the way. Blachmore. 
DOG'MATIZER, f. An aflerter; a magifterial teach¬ 
er; a bold advancer of opinions.—Such opinions, being 
not entered into the confeftions of our church, are not 
properly chargeable either on papifts or proteftants, but 
on particular dogmatizers of both parties. Hammond. 
DOGRIB'BED, adj. Ribbed like a dog; lean or bare 
of flefh on the back and ribs. 
DOGRIB'BED INDIANS, a tribe which inhabit 
round lake Edlande, in the north-weft part of North 
America. They are often at war with the Arathapefcow 
Indians. Both thefe tribes are among the moft favage 
of the human race. They trade with the Hudfon-bay 
company’s fettlements. Edlande lake lies north of the 
Arathapefcow fea, or lake, and near the arctic circle. 
DOGS (I lie of), in the county of Middlefex, oppofite 
Greenwich. Here Togodumnus, brother of Caradtacus, 
was killed in a battle with the Romans, in the year 46. 
DOGS. f. Irons ufed inftead of a grate, for confirming 
wood, and fimilar fuel. 
DOHALIZ', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 
nigingratz: four miles north-weft of Konigingratz. 
DOH'NA, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and margraviate of Meiften, on the Muglitz^ 
containing about one hundred houfes: nine miles fouth. 
fouth-eaft of Drefden. 
DOIAGO'I, an ifland of Ruflia, in the Frozen Sea, at 
the entrance of the Straits of Vagatlkoi. Lat. 70. 5. N» 
Ion. 75. E. Ferro. 
DO'JAR, a town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen : 
forty-four miles eaft of Chamir. 
DOI'LY,/ A woollen fluff; fo called, it is fuppofed, 
from the name of the firft maker.—We Ihould be as weary 
of one fet of acquaintance, though never fo good, as we 
are of one fuit, though never fo fine : a fool and a doily 
fluff, would now and then find days of grace, and be 
worn for variety. Congreve. —Linen made into a final! 
napkin. 
DO'INGS,/ [from to do. This word has hardly any 
lingular.] Tilings done; events; tranfadtions : 
I have but kill’d a fly.— 
—But how if that fly had a father and mother? 
How would he hang his flender gilded wings, 
And buz lamented doings in the air ! Shakejpeare. 
Feats; adtions : good or bad : 
If I’m traduc’d by tongues which neither know 
My faculties nor perfon, yet will be 
The chronicles of my doing, let me fay 
’Tis but the face of place, and the rough brake 
That virtue muft go through. Shakejpeare -. 
Behaviour: condudt: 
Never the earth on his round fhoulders bare 
A maid train’d up from high or low degree. 
That in her doings better could compare 
Mirth with refpedt, few words with curtefy. Sidney. 
Condudt; difpenfation.—Dangerous it were for the fee¬ 
ble brains of man to wade far into the doings of the Moft 
High. Hooker. —Stir; buftle ; tumult.—Shall there be 
then, in the mean while, no doings? Hooker. —Feftivity ; 
merriment: as, jolly doings. This word is now only ufed 
in a ludicrous fenfe, or in low mean language.—After 
fuch miraculous doings, we are not yet in a condition of 
bringing France to our terms. Swift. 
DOI'RON, a river of Savoy, which joins the Ifere near 
Mouftiers, in the Tarentaife. 
DOIT,/ iduyt, Dut. doyght, Erfe.] A final 1 piece of 
bafe money, prohibited by ftat. 3 Hen, V. c. 1.—When 
they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they 
will lay out ten to fee a dead Indian. Shakejpeare. 
In Anna’s wars a foldier, poor and old, 
Had dearly earn’d a little purfp of gold ; 
Tir’d with a tedious march, one lucklefs night 
He flept, poor dog ! and loft it to a doit. Pope. 
DO'KOWICHE, 
