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ers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.

The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opnions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.

e constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.

l of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

s a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

amian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.

g so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16.

n downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. "With declining head." Shak. He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson. Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron. The ground at…

Weariness; fatigue. [R.] Bacon.

The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidæ.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess. You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak.

To come to an end; to end; to terminate. [Obs.] He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone.

The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

ole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive. Development theory (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and that all the higher forms of life now in existence were thus developed by uniform laws fro…