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Doctrines of the Karaites.

One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

my people doth not consider. Is. i. 3. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. John vii. 17. The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. Tylor.

The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.

to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.

Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

ard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

To imbue; to infect; to vitiate. With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer. Milton.

Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock. The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. Macaulay.

rt; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing." A smooth and pleasing lesson." Milton. Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind. Chaucer.

Letting alone. The let-alone principle, doctrine, or policy. (Polit. Econ.) See Laissez faire.

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Libertarian principles or doctrines.

an amusement I have no liking for. If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. Bacon.

Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive. Doctrines limitary, if not subversive of the papal power. Milman.

Instruction; doctrine. Their line is gone out through all the earth. Ps. xix. 4.

The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.

The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies.

A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.