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Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2.

To teach; to indoctrinate. [Obs.] Donne.

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us generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

r position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.

The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell.

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.

The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists. [R.] Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster. Pagitt.

The doctrine or practice of anarchists.