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One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.

The doctrines or organization of the International.

A member of the International; one who believes in, or advocates the doctrines of, the International.

The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.

One who holds the doctrine of intuitionalism.

The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive. J. Grote.

The faith, doctrines, or religious system of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islam.

process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.

The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

l, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated. -- Italic version. See Itala.

The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

n, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.

An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary, and opposed the asceticism of his time.

The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses. J. S. Mill.

To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism. They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to Judaize so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various instances. They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. Bp. Bull.

sitive right. [R.] By the adjective jural we shall denote that which has reference to the doctrine of rights and obligations; as by the adjective "moral" we denote that which has reference to the doctrine of duties. Whewell.

el Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant.

The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.