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The doctrine of the Docetæ.

Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.

A foot of five syllables (usually

Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility. To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.

Easily taught or managed; teachable. Milton.

Teachable; easy to teach; docible. [Obs.]

teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. [Obs. or R.]

The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.

Proving by experiments or tests. Docimastic art, metallurgy, or the art of assaying metals; the art of separating metals from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substances contained in any ore or mineral.

A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.

Teachableness. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. His top was docked like a priest biforn. Chaucer.

Nipplewort.

A charge for the use of a dock.

A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. On the docket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

See Docket.

acher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon.

Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.