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a. (Zool.) Without an anal orifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Choctaw. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Coctile. ] Capable of being cooked. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coctilis, fr. coguere. See Cook. ] Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coctio. ] 1. Act of boiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) Digestion. [ Obs. ] (b) The change which the humorists{ 1 } believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [ Obs. ] Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Concocted; p. pr. & vb. n. Concocting. ] [ L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See Cook. ] 1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To purify or refine chemically. [ Obs. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who concocts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concoctio. ] 1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of perfecting or maturing. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence the concoctive powers, with various art,
Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. J. Armstrong. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Crystallog.) A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family including the agoutis and pacas.
Syn. -- family Dasyproctidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decocted; p. pr. & vb. n. Decocting. ] [ L. decoctus, p. p. of decoquere to boil down; de- + coquere to cook, boil. See Cook to decoct. ] 1. To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling. [ R. ] “Decoct their cold blood.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being boiled or digested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. décoction, L. decoctio. ] 1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. [ 1913 Webster ]

In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A decoction. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To decompose. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Doctored p. pr. & vb. n. Doctoring. ] 1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To practice physic. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile. ] 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An academical title, originally meaning a man so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. [ 1913 Webster ]

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The friar skate. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Doctors' Commons. See under Commons. --
Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. G. Eliot. --
Doctor fish (Zool.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. doctoral. ] Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a doctor.[ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. doctorat. ] The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make (one) a doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female doctor.[ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a doctor or learned man. [ Obs. ] “Doctorly prelates.” Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Doctorate. [ R. ] Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female doctor. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Doctrine. ] 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, doctrinaire notions. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In french history, the Doctrinaires 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. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines. T. Goodwin. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. doctrinalis, fr. L. doctrina: cf. F. doctrinal. See Doctrine. ] 1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. “Doctrinal clauses.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a doctrinal manner or form; by way of teaching or positive direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A doctrinaire. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. doctrine, L. doctrina, fr. doctor. See Doctor. ] 1. Teaching; instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. “The doctrine of gravitation.” I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Articles of faith and doctrine. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Monroe doctrine (Politics), a policy enunciated by President Monroe (Message, Dec. 2, 1823), the essential feature of which is that the United States will regard as an unfriendly act any attempt on the part of European powers to extend their systems on this continent, or any interference to oppress, or in any manner control the destiny of, governments whose independence had been acknowledged by the United States.

Syn. -- Precept; tenet; principle; maxim; dogma. -- Doctrine, Precept. Doctrine denotes whatever is recommended as a speculative truth to the belief of others. Precept is a rule down to be obeyed. Doctrine supposes a teacher; precept supposes a superior, with a right to command. The doctrines of the Bible; the precepts of our holy religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unpracticed he to fawn or seek for power
By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'ekto`s outside outside + &unr_; the anus. ] (Zoöl.) An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + doctrine. ] To teach; to indoctrinate. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; within + &unr_; the anus. ] (Zoöl.) A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequinoctials, fr. aequinoctium equinox: cf. F. équinoxial. See Equinox. ] 1. Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or near that line; as, equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as, an equinoctial gale or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equinoctial colure (Astron.), the meridian passing through the equinoctial points. --
Equinoctial line (Astron.), the celestial equator; -- so called because when the sun is on it, the nights and days are of equal length in all parts of the world. See Equator. [ 1913 Webster ] Thrice the equinoctial line
He circled. Milton. --
Equinoctial points (Astron.), the two points where the celestial and ecliptic intersect each other; the one being in the first point of Aries, the other in the first point of Libra. --
Equinoctial time (Astron.) reckoned in any year from the instant when the mean sun is at the mean vernal equinoctial point. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The equinoctial line. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Towards the equinox. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. [ L. excoctus, p. p. of excoquere to excoct. See 3d Cook. ] To boil out; to produce by boiling. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. excoctio. ] The act of excocting or boiling out. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hex- + octahedron. ] (Geom.) A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Corrupted fr. L. hic est doctus this is a learned man. ] A juggler. [ Cant ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Concoct. ] Raw; indigestible. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pref. in- not + concoctus, p. p. of concoquere. See Concoct. ] Inconcocted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]