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The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.

lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.

he reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."

Pertaining to, or characterized by, sameness of parts; receiving or advocating the doctrine of homogeneity of elements or first principles.

Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.

torm; to take offense. THis senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance. South.

enet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

ing from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism. [Obs.]

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.

A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.

Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. Boyle.

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by che…

Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.

The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Johnson. What is now "idea" for us How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator conte…

Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.