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Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.

The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

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.

cess, 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.

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

ica pepper, allspice. -- Jamaica rose (Bot.), a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervis), with showy pink flowers.

The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

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.

A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine, and found with it in white hellebore (Veratrum album); -- called also jervina.

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.