dubiousness

[Eng. dubious; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being dubious; doubtfulne , uncertainty, hesitation. 1558 (1) The gold ducat of Holland, weighing 3.494 grammes, 983 fine, value 9s. 42d. sterling, or about $2.33. (2) The gold ducat of Ru ia, which is of pre Dutch ducat. cisely the same weight, finene , and value as the (3) The gold ducat of Austria-Hungary, weighing 3.4904 grammes, '986 fine, value 9s. 44 d., or $2.34. (4) The gold ducat of Sweden, weighing 3486 grammes, 9766 fine, value 95. 31 d., or $2.31. (5) The gold ducat of Hamburg, valued at 5 marks banco, or 7s. 5d., or $1.85. (6) The silver ducat of Sicily, weight 22-943 grammes, '833 fine, value 3s. 4%d., or 84 cents. duc-at-ôon', duc-at-one, s. [Fr.ducat on, from ducat =a ducat (q. v.).] Commerce: 1. An old silver coin, worth about 5s 34d. sterling, or $1.27, sometimes found still circulating in 2. A silver coin current in Parma, value 4s. 3d., or about $1.00. Called also a Scudo (q. v.). 2. Uncertainty of i ue or event. *du-bit-a-ble, a. [Lat. dubitabilis , from dubito =to doubt, from dubius = doubtful.] Doubtful, uncertain; open to or admitting of doubt or question. "The ground of invocation of saints or angels being at least dubitable ."- Dr . H. More: Antidote against Idolatry , p. 25. *dū-bit-a-bly, adv . [Eng. dubitab ( le ); -ly .] Doubtfully, uncertainly. *dū-bit-an-çỹ, s [Lat. dubitans , pr. par. of dubito to doubt.] Doubt, hesitation, uncertainty, doubtfulne . "They are most fully without all dubitancy resolved that all the joys of heaven are forfeited by this choice." Hammond: Sermons, vi. *du-bit-āte, v . i . [Lat. dubitatum , sup. of dubito =to doubt.] To doubt, to hesitate, to waver. "If, for example, he were to loiter dubitating , and not come."- Carlyle : Fr. Revol .. pt. ii., bk. ii., ch. vi. *du-bit-ā-ting, a . [DUBITATE, v . ] Hesitating, doubtful. *dū-bit-ā-ting-ly, adv . [Eng. dubitating ; -ly .] Hesitatingly, doubtfully; with hesitation or doubt. "Answered dub it a tingly ."- Carlyle : Letters and Speeches of Cromwell, iii. 194. *du-bit-a-tion, s. [Lat. dubitatio , from dubito =to doubt; Fr. dubitation ; Sp.dubitacion .) Doubt, hesitation, uncertainty. "To which without dubitation he does peremptorily adhere."-Taylor: Di uasive from Popery , pt. ii., bk. ii. *du'-bit-a-tive, a . [Lat. dubitativus , from du bitatum , sup. of dubito to doubt; Fr. dub it at if ; Sp & Ital. dubitativo .] Tending to doubt. du-blar, s . [DOUBLER.] A large dish; a charger. "My berne, scho say is, hes of hir awin,Disc his and dublaris nyne or ten." Bannatyne Poems , p. 158.