doctrine
nounEtymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
- derived from doctrina
Definitions
A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.
- The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.
- Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones. It progresses then because existing metaphysical doctrines are felt to be constricting frameworks, and thus unsatisfactory.
The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or…
The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
- What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
- This one thing do we (compelled by your blaſphemous accuſations) repeat oftener then we would: to the end that indifferent men may ſee what doctrine it is, which you ſo maliciouſly impugne.
A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially…
A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
- the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine
The neighborhood
- neighbordocent
- neighbordocile
- neighbordoctor
- neighbordoctorate
- neighbordoctrinaire
- neighbordoctrinal
- neighbordoctrinally
- neighbordoctrinize
- neighbordoctrinization
- neighbordocument
- neighborindoctrinate
Derived
abstention doctrine, Alford doctrine, Bell doctrine, blue pencil doctrine, castle doctrine, counterdoctrine, doctrinable, doctrineless, doctrine of equivalents, doctrine of foreign equivalents, doctrine of necessity, doctrine of philosophical necessity, doctrine of signatures, doctrinism, endoctrine, fairness doctrine, first-sale doctrine, living tree doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Monro-Kellie doctrine, original package doctrine, plain view doctrine, professional rescuers doctrine, prosperity doctrine, spider in the web doctrine, tender years doctrine, undoctrined, wage-fund doctrine, Zapple doctrine
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at doctrine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at doctrine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at doctrine
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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