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Doc's

HNsr,.,

in bOlany. See COTVLA.

DOG's >tER(VRY, in bOlany.

S~e

Mt RCURIALIS .

Do';'s

Run.

Se~

ROSA.

fl oc 's HO'¡', in

!Jot.ny.

See ORe"I!.

l) oc 's HI L, in botln)'. See CVNOSURUS.

ll o,,'s TON CU F., in botany. See CVNOGLO SSUM.

!lu.;'s TOOT H. in botany. Sce

ER VTH KONIU~"

DClG E.

the ehief magifirm in lhe rcpublies of Veniec

Genoa.

Thi! dignilYis elcélive in both pbces ; al Veniee il

eontin\les for life; at GcnoJ, il is onl)' for

1100

years.

Hi! title is Smnity: he is ehicf of the eouneil, and

mol\th of the republic, he being to anfwer for her.

The Venetians do not go inlo mourning al his dealh,

being only the

ph~nlom

maj~fiy,

as all lhe a\l'

thoJity is vefied in the republie; the doge only lends

his name tO the fcnatc; the power is diffufed through

thewhole body; thouCh anfwers

fOleign amba(fadors,

&r.

are made iD lhe name of Ihe doge. The money

is Oruek in his name, but do:s nOl bear his arms.

AII the magifimes rife and falule himwhen he comes

into lhe eouneil: but he rifes tO non

bUI foreign am·

ba(fadof!. He mufi

001

flir OUl of Veniee, without

leave of lhe counfellors,

&c.

DOGGERS, a name ufed for fithing .¡(fds; whence,

in lome of our old Oatules, lOe mee! with dogger·men,

d(notillg the fithermen of lhofe . e(fels.

DOGMA, a principie, maxim, tenet, or fenled opinion,

partie.larly with regard to maners of faith and philo.

rorhy.

DOGMATlCAL, fomething belonging to a dodrine or

opinion.

dogmatieal philofopher is one who alferts

things pofitively; in Oppofilion to a feeptie, who

doubls of every lhing.

DOGMATISTS, a feél of aneient phyfieians, of which

Hippocrates Ins lhefirOaumor. Theyare alfo c.lled

logiti,

logicians, from lheir ufing lhe rllles of logic in

fubjeéls of their profeffion. Th.y laid down definitionl

anddivifions reducingdifeafes to cenaingenera,and thofe

genera to fpecies, and furnithing remedies for themall ;

ruppofing principies, drawing conclufions, .nd apply–

iog thofe principies and eonclufions tO particular dif–

e¡fes under confidmlion: in which fenfe the dogma–

tiOsOand eontradiflinguilhed fromempirics and melho·

dills. They rejeél

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medicinal virtues lh'l they

lhink not reducible

manifeO qualities: but Galen

ha,h long ago obfmed of fueh men, that they muO

ei,her deny plain matter of faél, or affign but very

poor reafons and caufes of re;¡ny effeéls they pretend

expl.in.

DOLE, in our aneient cuOoms, fignified a pan or por·

tion, moO commonly of a meadow, where feveral

ptrfons hm Ihares.

alfo Oill fignifies a difiribu–

tlon or de,ling of alms, or a liberal gift ruade by a

grat nnn tO the people.

DOLf, in Scots law, fignifies

malevolent intention.

is ,lfenlial in all crimes lh.t il be cOOlmincd intention–

ally, or by an aél of the \ViII;

h~ncc th~

rule,

Cri/lml

,/, M"Jlilur.

SCt

SCO"rs

LAw,

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D O M

DOLICJlO~.

in bo,any, a genus ,,( lhe diaJelphia

d~·

candria

cl~fs

of plan';,

th~ cor~lI.

of which is papilio.

naceous: lhe vcxillum is roundiO,.

I~rge,

emargina–

ted, and II'holly reHcéled; the fruit is a I.rge, acu–

minmd, oblollg pod, compofed of two valves, and

containing t\Vo cells; the feeds are numerous, tllipti–

cal, and frequently eomprelfed. There are twenty.five

fpecies, none of them nalivcs of Rritain.

DOLLAR, a film coin currenl in feveral parlS of Cer–

many and Holland . There are various fpecies of dol-

1m,

as the riK·dollar, the fcmi·dollar, the qualter–

dollar,

&c.

DOLPHIN, in ichthyology. See DELPHINUS.

DOM, or DON, atitle of honour, inyenled and ehieRr

ureJ by the Sp.niards, fignifying, fir, or lord.

This title, it feems, was firO givento Pelayo, in the

beginning of lheVlllth century. In Portugal no pero

fon can a(fume the tille of don, without the permiffion

of the kiog. fince il is looked upon as a mark of ho·

nou r .nd nobility.

DOM Al~,

the ioheritance, enate, or polfeffioo of aoy

one. See DEMES NE.

DOME, in architeélure, a fpherical roof, or a rpof of

a fpherieal form, raifed over the middle of a building,

as a church, hall, pavillion, vemble, Oair·cafe,

6c.

by way of crawning.

DOME, or

Doo~t,

fignifies alCo a fentence, judgment,

or decree.

DOMESDAY, or DOOMSDAV·BOOK, a very ancient

record made in the time of William the Conqueror,

whieh now remains in the eKchequer, and confins of

tWO volumes, a greater and a lefs; the greater

c~n

tdins a furvey of all the lands io moO of lhe

count~es

in England, and the lefs eomprehends fome counues

that were then furveyed. The book of

domefd.ay

was

begun by five juOices, alligned for that purpoCe

county, io

th~

108 1,

and finithed in

!086.

was of lhat authority, that the conqueror hlmfel ffub·

mitted, in fome cafes wherein he was concerned, tO

be determined byit. Camden calls this book the

taK–

book of king William ; and it was farther called Mag·

na rolla.

There is Jikewife a third book of Domefday, made

by coml1land of the conqueror; and alfo a fourth,

be–

ing ao abridgment of the other books.

DOMESTIC, any man who alls uoder ano.ther,

fe~ving to compofe his (;¡mily; in which he hvel, or "

fuppofedto live, as. chaplain, (ecretary,

6~.

Some–

times dORleOic is applied tO ,he \Vife and chlldren,

~ut

very feldom tO fernnts, fuch as footmen, lacqulCl,

porters,

6c.

DOMICILE, in Seots law, js the dwelling place where

aperfon lives with aointeotion tOremain. See Seon

LAW, ti,le

DO IIFY¡

'G,

in afirology, the dividing or djOribu–

ting the heavens into twdve houfel, in order tO erell

a theme, or horofcope, by means of fix grw cirelel,

called cirdcs of pofition.

There are UriOUl wavs ofJomifying: th.t of «gil)–

montanas, which

tÍle mol! common,

make~

tbe

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