documentary

[Eng. document; -ary.] Pertaining to or consisting of documents or written evidence. "The Romans had no full narrative history of the first war founded upon authentic documentary evidence." Lewis: Cred. Early Rom. Hist . (1855), ch. v., § 7. *doc-u-měn-tā-tion, s. [Lat. documentum .] Instruction, advice. "Not another word of your documentations." -Richardson: Sir C. Grand is on, iv. 157. doc-u-měnt-ěd, pa . par . or a. [DOCUMENT, v.] *doc-u-ment-ize, v . t . [Eng. document ; -ize.] To teach, instruct, school. "I am to be closeted and to be document i zed ."- Richard son: Sir C. Grand is on , iv. 157. doc us, s . [Etym. doubtful.] A stupid fellow. "Ye maun be an unco doc us ."- Saint Patrick , ii. 242. dod, dodd, *dod-dyn (1), v . t . [Probably a variant of Dock (1), v .] 1. To lop or cut off, to dock. "Hue doddeth of huere hevedes." Political Songs, p. 192. 2. To shave, to cut or clip the hair. "The more that he doddide the heeris, so mych more the i wexen." - Wycliffe : 2 Kings xiv. 26. 3. (See extract.) "Our husbandmen in Middle sex make a distinction between dodding and threshing of wheat, the former being only the beating out of the fullest and fairest grain, leaving what is lean and lank to be threshed out afterward. Our comment may be said to have dodded the sheriffs of several counties, insisting only on their most memorable actions." Fuller: Worthies , ch. xv.