Doctrinariann.adj.
/dɒktrɪˈnɛːrɪən/ A. n.† 1. plural. The Brethren of Christian Doctrine, or Christian Brothers (French doctrinaires), a lay order instituted at Rheims in 1680 by J. B. de la Salle, to teach gratuitously the principles of religion and the elements of primary instruction. Obsolete.
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society > faith > church government > laity > lay associations > Doctrinarians > [noun]
Doctrinarians1747
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 570/2 Other amphibious kinds, which are neither Regulars nor Seculars, as Jesuits, Oratorians, Doctrinarians, Lazarists.
1794 tr. A. Barruel Hist. Clergy during French Revol. ii. 111 [He] had been educated in a secular congregation by the doctrinarians.
2. = doctrinaire n.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun] > person holding
dogmatizer1600
dogmatic1650
dogmatist1654
ultra1823
doctrinaire1831
Doctrinarian1836
mad mullah1838
doctrinist1840
ultraist1842
stalwart1899
fundamentalist1913
pontificator1934
Islamicist1963
1836 J. H. Newman Discuss. & Arguments (1872) 19 Protestantism is embodied in a system; so is Popery: but when a man takes up this Via Media, he is a mere doctrinarian—he is wasting his efforts in delineating an invisible phantom.
1840 T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. 60 164 England has its sect of doctrinarians as well as France.
B. adj.
= doctrinaire adj., doctrinary adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective]
high?1535
Arctic1593
magistral1596
forward1608
confident1611
magisterial1635
pragmatic1638
high-flown1640
affirmative1650
thetical1653
positive1658
pragmatical1660
dogmatical1662
dogmatic1681
unargumentative1722
ultra1820
doctrinaire1834
cocksure1842
doctrinary1846
unevidential1853
Doctrinarian1878
pontificating1922
fundamentalist1928
hardcore1951
1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 101 A stiff and doctrinarian politician of the Whig school.
Derivatives
doctriˈnarianism n. doctrinairism.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun]
dogmatism1603
pragmaticalness1626
positivenessa1649
magisteriousness1650
magisterialness1651
dogmaticalness1663
dogmaticality1705
cock-surety1819
ultraism1821
pontificating1825
doctrinairism1836
absolutism1854
dogmaticism1856
doctrinaritya1869
doctrinism1872
doctrinarianism1877
cocksureness1878
cocksureism1889
1877 D. M. Wallace Russia v. 82 The latest products of French doctrinarianism.
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