# doctrine
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: dǒkˈ -trǐn
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: doc‧trine
* Rhymes: -ɑktɹɪn, -ɒktɹɪn

### Noun

doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)
* (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
    The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.
    The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.
** 2012, Joseph Agassi, Science in Flux:Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones. It progresses then because existing metaphysical doctrines are felt to be constricting frameworks, and thus unsatisfactory.
* (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
    What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
** 1560, John Knox, An Answere to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations Written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternall Predestination, London: Thomas Charde, published 1591, page 95:This one thing do we (compelled by your blaſphemous accuſations) repeat oftener then we would: to the end that indifferent men may ſee what doctrine it is, which you ſo maliciouſly impugne.
* (countable) A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
    the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine

#### Derived terms

* abstention doctrine
* Alford doctrine
* Bell doctrine
* blue pencil doctrine
* castle doctrine
* counterdoctrine
* doctrinable
* doctrineless
* doctrine of equivalents
* doctrine of foreign equivalents
* doctrine of necessity
* doctrine of philosophical necessity
* doctrine of signatures
* doctrinism
* endoctrine
* fairness doctrine
* first-sale doctrine (first sale doctrine)
* living tree doctrine
* original package doctrine
* plain view doctrine
* professional rescuers doctrine
* prosperity doctrine
* spider in the web doctrine
* tender years doctrine
* undoctrined
* wage-fund doctrine
* Zapple doctrine

#### Related terms

* docent
* docile
* doctor
* doctorate
* doctrinaire
* doctrinal, doctrinally
* doctrinize, doctrinization
* document
* indoctrinate

#### Further reading

* “doctrine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “doctrine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Crediton, centroid, on credit

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctrīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌdɔkˈtri.nə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: doc‧tri‧ne
* Rhymes: -inə

### Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)
* doctrine
    Synonyms: leer, leerstuk
    De doctrine stelt duidelijk dat...The doctrine clearly states that...

#### Derived terms

* doctrinair
* indoctrineren

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin doctrīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔk.tʁin/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines)
* doctrine
    corps de doctrine ― body of doctrine

#### Derived terms

* doctrinaire
* doctrinal
* endoctriner

#### Related terms

* docteur

### Further reading

* “doctrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Spanish
### Verb

doctrine
* inflection of doctrinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative