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Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preëminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied t…

Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism. G. Eliot.

A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A trave…

one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin.

imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct. [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary. Bacon.

comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret. The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. De Quincey.

The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.

One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

te, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.

physical examination. "An exploration of doctrine." Bp. Hall.

to tell. My words express my purpose. Shak. They expressed in their lives those excellent doctrines of morality. Addison.

Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.

That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.

A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

ation. Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton.

The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.

ed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father. Hence, the doctrine itself (not admitted by the Eastern Church).

iple; an opponent; an adversary; an ill- wisher; as, a foe to religion. A foe to received doctrines. I. Watts

The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. Official formalism. Sir H. Rawlinson.