单词 | doctrine |
释义 | doc·trine 1. archaic < He … said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken — Mark 4:2(Authorized Version) > 2. a. < the doctrine and lore of the early fathers > b. < the doctrine of atoms > < Christian doctrine > c. < the doctrine of caveat emptor > d. < the Truman doctrine > < the Monroe doctrine > 3. obsolete Synonyms: < the doctrine of Einstein, which sweeps away axioms so familiar to us that they seem obvious truths, and substitutes others which seem absurd because they are unfamiliar — Havelock Ellis > < there was also a nascent theory of sound waves; and out of it there grew a tremendous mathematical doctrine of waves which nowadays has almost come to dominate the physics of these times — K.K.Darrow > dogma applies to authoritative teaching or ruling laid down or promulgated as true and unquestionable < those who rejected the Marxist dogma found it easy to accept the dogma of those racists who represented Hitler as a modern synthesis of Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Nietzsche, and Kaiser Wilhelm II — Quincy Howe > < he sees orthodox science, despite all its achievements, become now the most dangerous enemy of a true philosophy, because its dogmas are least often questioned — J.W.Krutch > < the dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary > tenet may apply to any principle or opinion generally believed, whether taught and actively maintained or not < the other tenet of his materialism is that supernaturalism, though it may have a certain practical justification for the majority of men, has no rational basis — Vivian J. McGill > < sympathy for the afflicted, a Christian tenet, has done much to alleviate the sufferings of these unfortunate people — V.G.Heiser > |
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