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doctrinaire, n. (a.)|dɒktrɪˈnɛə(r)|
[a. F. doctrinaire (14th c.), ad. L. type *doctrīnārius, f. doctrīna doctrine: see -ary.]
A. n.
1. Fr. Hist. One of a political party which arose in France soon after 1815, ‘having for their object and doctrine the establishment and preservation of constitutional government, and the reconciliation of authority and liberty, royalty and national representation.’ (Townsend Manual of Dates.)
They were looked upon by members of the two extreme parties as speculative politicians holding a ‘doctrine’ not within the range of practical politics.
1820Edin. Rev. XXXIV. 38 (Stanf.) There is at Paris a small set of speculative politicians called doctrinaires. 1834Spectator 15 Nov. 1086/2 Do not be cajoled by any stupid stories..about the Doctrinaires going out of office on any question of principle. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. II. 296 M. Guizot..was a doctrinaire. But though that designation had no political meaning; though it expressed a manner of being, rather than a manner of thinking, still there adhered to it some indescribable tincture of unpopularity which was totally indelible.
2. Hence, One who holds some doctrine or theory which he tries to apply without sufficient regard to practical considerations; a pedantic theorist. (Often applied as a term of reproach by ‘practical’ men, to those whom they consider talking or writing theorists.)
1831Edin. Rev. LII. 454 (Stanf.) A system may be the truest possible whilst argued on in vacuo, in the cabinet of a Doctrinaire. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. x. 265 The way to answer these doctrinaires is to turn to facts. 1871G. Duff Teachings Cobden, Those are only justly called doctrinaires who insist on acting in season and out of season upon the doctrines which they profess. 1887Jessopp Arcady vii. 197 They got astride of this favourite hobby-horse of the doctrinaires. 1888Lowell Pr. Wks. (1890) II. 193 Practical politicians, as they call themselves,..have substituted doctrinaire for pedant as the term of reproach.
B. adj. Pertaining to, or of the character of, a doctrinaire; wedded to a particular doctrine or theory and seeking to apply it in all circumstances; merely theoretical or speculative.
1834Spectator 22 Nov. 1112/2 A Cabinet..with an old..employé of the Empire at the head, and a Doctrinaire Minister of Justice at the tail. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. xv. 362 The re-iterations of doctrinaire politicians. 1879M. Pattison Milton 120 Would Milton take his stand upon doctrinaire republicanism? 1880Disraeli Endym. i, Don't you be too doctrinaire..you and I are practical men. |