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Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.

The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.

mes, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known. The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the study of manners and customs. Tylor. Survival of the fittest. (Biol.) See Natural selection, under Natural.

One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus…

The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.

An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.

The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

One who holds the doctrine of synergism.

One who systematizes. Aristotle may be called the systematizer of his master's doctrines. Harris.

The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison.

hout; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.

The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist (#), n.

The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design. -- Te`le*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. (Biol.),

Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macau…

The doctrine held by the Terminists.

The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.