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duity and natural tade, that he foon diftinguiflied himfelf 
among the artifts of his time. One of his pictures, placed 
in a (hop-window, attracted the notice of Vandyke, who 
made enquiries after the painter, and found him at work 
in a garret. He generoufly fitted him to appear in a fitua- 
tion more worthy of his merit, and recommended him to 
Charles I. That patron and judge of the arts, on the 
death of Vandyke, gave Dobfon the port of ferjeant- 
painter, and groom of his chamber. Dobfon attended 
him to Oxford, where he painted feveral of the court, 
and rofe into great reputation. He died at his houfe in 
St. Martin’s-lane, at the early age of thirty-fix. In a 
fltort life he has perpetuated his name, by a degree of 
profeflional excellence which enables him to hold a place 
in the lift of fuperior artifts. He po'ffefled a bold and 
free manner, great fweetnefs of touch, and a fine tone of 
colouring ; and though the defedls of education pre¬ 
vented him from emulating the grace of Vandyke, yet 
he animated his figures by the force of native genius. 
DOBU'NI, or Boduni, an ancient people of Britain, 
who poftefted the territory which now forms the coun¬ 
ties of Oxford and Gloucefter. Both the names of this 
Britifh nation feem to have been derived from the low 
fituation of a great part of the country which they inha¬ 
bited : for both duvn and bodun fignify profound, or low, 
in the ancient language of Gaul and Britain. The Duro- 
cornovium of Antoninus, and the Corinium of Ptolemy, 
are believed to have been the fame place, the capital of 
the Dobuni, fituated at Cirencefter in Gloucefterfiiire, 
where there are many marks of a Roman ftation. 
DOBYGUR', a fortrefs of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic: 
fourteen miles fouth of Velore. 
DOCAR'MO, a town of South America, in the coun¬ 
try of Brafil. Lat. 20.20. S. Ion. 2$. 35. W. Greenwich. 
DO'CE, or Fresh Water River, a river of South 
America, in Brafil, which runs into the Atlantic. Lat. 
19.10. S. Ion. 23. 20. W. Greenwich. 
DOCE'T.®,/ [from oor.etv, Gr. to appear. ] In eccle- 
fiaftical hiftory, the followers of Julius Caffianus, one of 
the Valentinian fe£t, towards the clofe of the fecond 
century, who revived a notion that had been adopted by 
a branch of the Gnoftics, againft whom St. John, Igna¬ 
tius, and Polycarp, had afferted the truth of the incarna¬ 
tion. They believed and taught, as their name imports, 
that the adtions and [offerings of Chrift were not in re¬ 
ality, but only in appearance. 
DOCET'TES, a towm of France, in the department 
of the Vofges : two leagues and a half from Remiremont. 
DOCHMA'IC, adj. Belonging to that kind of poetic 
meafure which was determined by the dochmius. 
DOCHMA'IC, f. The dochmius, the foot confiding 
of five fyllables. Scott. 
DOCH'MIUS, f. In ancient poetry, a foot confiding 
of five fyllables, a fpecies of the antipaftic meafure. 
DO'CIBLE, adj. [docilis, Lat.] Tradtable; docile; 
eafy to be taught.—The afinine feaft of fow-thiftles and 
brambles is fet before them, as all the food and enter¬ 
tainment of their tendered and mod; docible age. Milton. 
DO'CIBLENESS,/. Teachablenefs ; docility; readi- 
nefs to learn.—I might enlarge in commendation of the 
noble hound, as alfo of the dociblenefs of dogs. Walton. 
DO'CILE, adj. [docilis, Lat.] Teachable ; eafily in- 
flrudted; tradfable.—Dogs foon grow accudomed to what¬ 
ever they are taught, and, being docile and tradlable, are 
very ufeful. Ellis. —With to before the thing taught: 
Soon docile to the fecret a£ts of ill, 
With fmiles I could betray, with temper kill. Prior. 
DOCI'LITY,/. \docilite, Fr. from docilitas, Lat.] Apt- 
nefs to be taught; readinefs to learn.—What is more ad¬ 
mirable than the fitnefs of every creature for ufe ? the 
docility of an elephant, and the infitiency of a camel for 
travelling in defarts? Grew. ' 
DOCIMA'SIA, f. in Greek antiquity, a probation of 
the magidrates and perfons employed in public bufinefs 
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at Athens. Tt was performed publicly in the forum, 
where they were obliged to give account of themfelves 
and their pad life before the judges. 
DOCIMAS'TIC ART, a name given to the art of 
affaying or determining by experiments in the fmall way, 
the quantities and nature of the component parts of bodies 
intended to be ufed in commerce. See the article Assay. 
DOCK,/. [bocca,Sax.] A plant; a weed. SeeRuMEX. 
My love for gentle Dermot fader grows 
Than yon tall dock that rifes to thy nofe : 
Cut down the dock, ’twill fprout again ; but know, 
Love rooted out again will never grow. Swift. 
DOCK, f The dump of the tail, which remains after 
docking. The folid part of the tail.—The tail of a great 
rhinoceros is not well defcribed by Bontius. The dock 
is about half an inch thick, and two inches broad, like 
an apothecary’s fpatula. Grew. — Among hunters, the 
flefiiy part of a boar’s chine. 
DOCK, f. [as fome imagine, of to receive, or 
Sov.xro, a ftorehoufe.] A place where water is let in or 
out at pleafure, where drips are built or laid up.—-The 
boatfwain and mariner may bring religion to what dock 
they pleafe, Howel. —There are docks for their gallies and 
men of war, as well as work-houfes for all land and naval 
preparations. Addifon. 
To DOCK, v. a. [from dock, a tail.] To cut oft’the tail. 
See Farriery. To cut any thing diort.—One or two 
dood conftant centry, who docked all favours handed down; 
and fpread a huge invifible net between fhe prince and 
fubject, through which nothing of value could pafs. Swift. 
—To cut off a reckoning ; to cut off an entail.—[From 
dock, where (hips are built.] To lay the drip in a dock. 
DOCK-YARD, a grand naval magazine, containing 
all forts of (tores for fhip-building. In England, the 
royal dock-yards are at Chatham, Portfmouth, Ply¬ 
mouth, Deptford, Woolwich, and Sheernefs. His ma- 
jefty’s fnips and veffels of war are generally moored at 
theie ports during the time of peace; and fitch as want 
repair are taken into the docks, examined, and fitted for 
fervice. The dock-yards are governed by a commidioner, 
refident at the port; who fuperintends all the mufters of 
the officers, artificers, and labourers, employed in the 
dock-yard and ordinary. He alfo controls their payment 
therein; examines the accounts; contracts, and draws 
bills on the navy-office to fupply the deficiency of dores; 
and regulates whatever belongs to the dock-yard, main¬ 
taining due order in the refpective offices. 
DOCK'ER, a river of England, in the dounty of 
Lancafter, which runs into the fea, five miles north of 
Lancafter. 
DOCK'ET, or Dogget, f. in law, a brief in writing 
on a fmall piece of paper or parchment, containing the 
etfedt of a greater writing. And when roils of judgments 
are brought into the court of common pleas, they are 
docketted, and entered on the docket of that term; fo 
that upon any occafion a judgment may foon be found 
out by fearching thefe dockets, on knowing the attor¬ 
ney’s name. 4and 5'Will. & Mary, c. 20. Exemplification 
of decrees in chancery, and commilfions of bankruptcy, 
are alfo docketted. 
To DOCK'ET, v. a. To mark by a docket.—What¬ 
ever letters and papers you keep, docket and tie them up 
in their refpe&ive clafTes. Chcjlerfidd. 
DOCK'UM, a town of the United Dutch States in 
Frifeland, fituated in the country of Ooftergoo, on the 
river Ee, with a.good port, built in 248, by Ubbs duke 
of Friefland. The king Gondabole firft furrounded it 
with a wall ; and coined gold money in 739 : the Walls 
have been often demolidied and rebuilt. They preferve 
in this city a imtnufcript of the gofpels, faid'to be written 
by Boniface, the German apoftle, and fecond bidiop of 
Utrecht, who fuffered martyrdom, with fifty-one of his 
companions, in the year 739. The town is very neat and 
pleafant, and lias a good town-houfe built on the fide of 
11 B a grand' 
