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To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.

The Syrian bear. See under Bear. [Written also dhubb, and dub.]

One who, or that which, dubs.

The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [R.] Lamb. "The dubiety of his fate." Sir W. Scott.

ing doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing. [R.] Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

ubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.

In a dubious manner.

State of being dubious.

Liable to be doubted; uncertain. [R.] Dr. H. More. -- Du"bi*ta*bly, adv. [R.]

Doubt; uncertainty. [R.] Hammond.

To doubt. [R.] If he . . . were to loiter dubitating, and not come. Carlyle.

Act of doubting; doubt. [R.] Sir T. Scott.

Tending to doubt; doubtful. [R.] -- Du"bi*ta*tive*ly, adv. [R.] . Eliot.

Same as Duboisine.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

Not dubious or doubtful; certain.

Not dubitable or doubtful; too evident to admit of doubt; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; as, an indubitable conclusion. -- n.

The state or quality of being indubitable.

Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt. Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain. Barrow.