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The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.

Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought. Sir W. Hamilton.

Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.

The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.

heathen writers. Atterbury. Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. South.

The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case. [Written also supranaturalism.]…

Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.

The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.

, 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.

t; -- 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.