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The doctrine of particular election.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

gs; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine. My religion had always been Pauline. J. H. Newman.

er of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.

The doctrines of Pelagius.

The doctrine of the Perfectionists.

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev.

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to Ant: optimism.

One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to Ant: optimist.

To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism. London Sat. Rev.

The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect. Sharp.

A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle of reasoning. [R.] This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian myths, is a philosopheme. Coleridge.

Chaucer. We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke.

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.

The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena; optics.

The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and their remedies.

The doctrine of the generation of plants.

ce. (b) To take precedence or priority. Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. "If your doctrine takes place." Berkeley. "But none of these excuses would take place." Spenser. -- To take the place of, to be substituted for.