Word Meanings - DOCTRINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. "Doctrinal clauses." Macaulay. 2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature

Additional info about word: DOCTRINAL

1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. "Doctrinal clauses." Macaulay. 2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOCTRINAL)

• Dogmatic
• Doctrinal
• theological
• imperious
• dictatorial
• authoritative
• arrogant
• magisterial
• self-opinionated
• positive

Related words: (words related to DOCTRINAL)

• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• MAGISTERIALITY
  Magisterialness; authoritativeness. Fuller.
• DOCTRINAL
  1. Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. "Doctrinal clauses." Macaulay. 2. Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• MAGISTERIAL
  Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2. Syn. -- Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant.
• DOCTRINALLY
  In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.
• DOGMATIC; DOGMATICAL
  1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet. 2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way.
• DOGMATICIAN
  A dogmatist.
• DICTATORIAL
  1. Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. Military powers quite dictatorial. W. Irving. 2. Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ly, adv. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ness,
• POSITIVELY
  In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. Bacon. Give
• MAGISTERIALNESS
  The quality or state of being magisterial.
• DOGMATICALLY
  In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.
• POSITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. Swift. The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the
• ARROGANTNESS
  Arrogance.
• AUTHORITATIVE
  1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an
• POSITIVE
  Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture. Electro-positive. Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and
• MAGISTERIALLY
  In a magisterial manner.
• DOGMATICS
  The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology.
• IMPERIOUS
  1. Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic. "A vast and imperious mind." Tilloison. Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious. Shak. 2. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
• ARROGANT
  1. Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak. 2. Containing
• APPOSITIVE
  Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• ATHEOLOGICAL
  Opposed to theology; atheistic. Bp. Montagu.
• INAUTHORITATIVE
  Without authority; not authoritative.
• ELECTRO-POSITIVE
  Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
• POSTPOSITIVE
  Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
• PREPOSITIVE
  Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.