doggishness

[Eng. doggish; -ne .] The quality of being doggish; churlishne , morosene . dog'-grel, a. & s. [DOGGEREL.] *dog'-gy, *dog-gye, a. [Eng. dog; -y.] Like dogs; currish. "Pack hence, doggye rakhels." Stanyhurst: Virgil's Æneid , i. 145. dog-heart-ed, a. [Eng. dog , and hearted.] Cruel, unfeeling, pitile , malicious. IMG:content-0333.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0334.jpg:[blocks in formation] dog'-hole, s. [Eng. dog, and hole.] 1. Lit. & Min .: A small proving-hole or airway, usually le than five feet high. *2. Fig .: A mean, vile hole, fit only for a dog to live in. "France is a doghole , and it no more merits The tread of a man's foot." Shakesp.: All's Well , ii. 3. dog-house, s . [Eng. dog , and house .] A dog kennel. dog-kěn-nel, s. [Eng. dog, and kennel.] A little house or hut for dogs. "I am desired to recommend a dog kennel to any that shall want a pack."- Tatler . dog'-louse, s. [Eng. dog, and louse.] Entom.: Hæmotopinus piliferus , a parasitical insect that harbors on dogs. It is of an ashy-gray color. *dog-ly, a . [Eng. dog ; -ly .] Like a dog; having the nature or manners of a dog; churlish. "Dyogenes, otherwyse called dogly , because he had some condycyons of a dogge . " - Lord Rivers : Dictes . dog-mą ( pl . *dog'-ma-tạ, dog'-maş), s. [Gr. = that which appears good or right to one, from dokeo to seem, perf. pa . dedogmai .] I. Ord. Lang.: An established principle, maxim, tenet, or doctrine, put forward to be received on the authority of the propounder, as opposed to one deduced from experience or demonstration. "The dogmata and tenets of the Sadducees." - Bp . Bull: Works, ser. 2. IMG:content-0335.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically: 1. Singular: (1) Eccles . Hist .: One belonging to one of the three orders of theologians before the Reformation. These orders were thus cla ed: 1. The Dogmatics, so called because they based their systems or dogmas on the authority of Scripture, and the judgment of the Fathers. 2. The Mystics, who, in disparagement of Scripture, framed their opinions according to the dictates of spiritual intuition. 3. The Scholastics, who paid an almost sacred deference to the Aristo tel i an philosophy. dogmatical (2) Old Med.: One of a sect of physicians founded by Hippo crates, who based their rules of practice an general principles or conclusions deduced from theoretical influences. They were opposed to the Empirics and Methodists (q. v.). "Galen mentions in his time but three sects of physicians, Empirics, Methodists, and Dogmatics ."- Hakewu : On Providence, p. 244. 1499 dog'-skin, s. & a. [Eng. dog, and skin.] A. As subst.: The skin of a dog tanned and used for gloves. B. As adj .: Made of the tanned skin of a dog. "Three pair of oiled dogskin gloves."- Tatler , No. 245. dog'-stōneş, s . pl . [Eng. dog , and stones .] Bot .: A popular name for Orchis mascula. (Brit "I mean not to a ert anything dogmatically, but only to propose in order to farther examination." Sharp: Works , vol. ii., On a Doubting Conscience. dog-mắt-1-cal-ne , s. [English dogmatical; -ne .] The quality of being dogmatical or dictatorial; positivene . "In this were to be considered the natures of scepti. cism, dogmaticalne , enthusiasm, superstition, ."Hurd: Life of War burton.