Dobrow's ki, Jozef

a Bohemian philologist, B. 1753. He gained a high reputation by his works on the Slavic language and history; especially his Institutiones Lin gur Slavica Dialect i Veteris. D. 1829. Dobrudscha, or Do brusk a, ( do - broods'ka ,) a former dist. of European Turkey, extending from Silistriaand Varna to the mouth of the Danube, and forming the N.Ε. portion of Bulgaria. In 1878, annexed to Roumania. ( q.v. ) Dob'ule, n. (Zool.) The Leuciscus dobula , a fish of the Cyprinidæ family. Dob's on, in N. Carolina, a township, cap. of Surry co., about 55 m. W.N.W. of Greens borough. Doce, ( do's ai ,) a river of Brazil, rising in the prov. of Minas Geraes, and flowing N.E. into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 m. N. of Victoria. Length about 360 m. Doce'tæ, Doce'tes, n . pl. [Gr. dokein , to appear.] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of heretics who contended that Christ was a god, and that he did not really suffer death on the cro , but only in appearance, and who arose in the 1st century. Gibbon says: "While his blood was still recent on Mount Calvary, the Docetes, a numerous and learned sect of Asiatics, invented the phantastic system, which was afterwards propagated by the Mar cio nites, the Manichæans, and the various names of the Gnostic heresy." They denied the resurrection and ascension, and separated into various divisions under different leaders. Dochmiac, ( dok'me - ak,) a. ( Pros.) Pertaining to, or comprising, the dochmius.