dobule (dobul)

[N [NL. dobula; origin obscure.] A name of a fresh-water cyprinoid fish, Leuciscus dobula (or vulgar is ), allied to the roach and dace. docedt, n. An erroneous form of doucet, 2. docent (do's ent), a. and n. [= D. G. Dan. Sw. docent, a university teacher, L. docen (t-) s, ppr. of docere, teach: see docile.] I.t a. Teaching. The church here is taken for the church as it is docent and regent, as it teaches and governs. Abp . Laud , Against Fisher, xxxiii. II. n. See privat - docent . Docetæ (do-sē tē), n . pl . [LL., δοκεῖν , seem.] A sect of heretics of the first and second centuries who denied the human origin of Christ's body, some holding that it was a mere phantom, and others that it was real but of celestial substance. Thus they believed the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ to have been mere appearances or illusions. Strictly this name seems to have belonged to a single sect of the second century, but it is commonly used indifferently or collectively of the various Gnostic sects which held similar views on this point. Certain Monophysites afterward taught a doctrine as to Christ's body related to that of the Docetæ. See Aphthartodocetæ, Phantasiast. [ Docetæ + -ism.] Scott , Rob Roy, xiv. Docetic (do-set'ik), a. [ Docetæ + -ic.] Of, pertaining to, or held by the Docete: as, "Do- cetic gnosticism," Plumptre . Docetism (dō-se'tizm), n. The doctrinal system of the Docetæ. Docetist (dō-sē'tist), n. [ in the silk trade in 1830 by Mr. S. Dean, of Spital fields. A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 279. dobby-machine (dob'i-ma-shen"), n. A loom for weaving fancy patterns, constructed on a principle e similar to that of the Jacquard loom. dobchick (dob'chik), n. Same as dabchick. dobee (dō'bē), n. Same as dhobie. dobhash (dō'bash), n. [