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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.

The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.

Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.

The doctrines of Macedonius.

philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.

A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural. Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. Ecclus. xxi. 19.

A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil. The Manichæans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its utmost development. Tylor.

The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichæans.

The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster.

The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement. J. Sully.

ugh the agency of the living organism; metabolism. Vegetable metamorphosis (Bot.), the doctrine that flowers are homologous with leaf buds, and that the floral organs are transformed leaves.

The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton.

The doctrine of Millenarians.

A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.