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<h1>Doctorly</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tor*ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a doctor or learned man.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Doctorly</i> prelates."

<i>Foxe.</i>

<h1>Doctorship</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tor*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Doctorate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Clarendon.</i>

<h1>Doctress</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tress</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A female doctor.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Doctrinable</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tri*na*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<h1>Doctrinaire</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc`tri*naire"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See <er>Doctrine</er>.]</ety> <def>One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; <as>as, <ex>doctrinaire</ex> notions</as>.</def>

<note>&hand; In french history, the <i>Doctrinaires</i> were a constitutionalist party which originated after the restoration of the Bourbons, and represented the interests of liberalism and progress. After the Revolution of July, 1830, when they came into power, they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with the republicans and radicals.</note>

<i>Am. Cyc.</i>

<h1>Doctrinal</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tri*nal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>doctrinalis</ets>, fr. L. <ets>doctrina</ets>: cf. F. <ets>doctrinal</ets>. See <er>Doctrine</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; <as>as, a <ex>doctrinal</ex> observation</as>.</def> "<i>Doctrinal</i> clauses."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching.</def>

<blockquote>The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a <b>doctrinal</b> instrument. <i> Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Doctrinal</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tri*nal</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines.</def>

<i>T. Goodwin. Sir T. Elyot.</i>

<h1>Doctrinally</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tri*nal*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.</def>

<h1>Doctrinarian</h1> <Xpage=441>

<hw>Doc"tri*na"ri*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A doctrinaire.</def>