The Collaborative International Dictionary
doctrine \doc"trine\ (d[o^]k"tr[i^]n), n. [F. doctrine, L. doctrina, fr. doctor. See Doctor.]
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Teaching; instruction.
He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. -- Mark iv.
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2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. ``The doctrine of gravitation.''
--I. Watts.Articles of faith and doctrine. -- Hooker.
The Monroe doctrine (Politics), a policy enunciated by President Monroe (Message, Dec. 2, 1823), the essential feature of which is that the United States will regard as an unfriendly act any attempt on the part of European powers to extend their systems on this continent, or any interference to oppress, or in any manner control the destiny of, governments whose independence had been acknowledged by the United States.
Syn: Precept; tenet; principle; maxim; dogma.
Usage: -- Doctrine, Precept. Doctrine denotes whatever is recommended as a speculative truth to the belief of others. Precept is a rule down to be obeyed. Doctrine supposes a teacher; precept supposes a superior, with a right to command. The doctrines of the Bible; the precepts of our holy religion.
Unpracticed he to fawn or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour. -- Goldsmith.
Usage examples of "the monroe doctrine".
The Holy Alliance was directly responsible for the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine, and the Monroe Doctrine of America for the Americans has a very distinct bearing upon your own life.
The Major's recent discovery of the Monroe Doctrine had been galvanizing.
Thus arose the Monroe Doctrine, the doctrine that there must be no extension of extra-American government in America, which has kept the Great Power system out of America for nearly a hundred years and permitted the new states of Spanish America to work out their destinies along their own lines.
Plans were similar for the Middle East, to which the US extended the Monroe Doctrine after World War II, with enormous consequences for southern Europe, North Africa, and the region itself.
Such were the instruments on which she chiefly relied to sustain her in her repudiation of the Monroe Doctrine and her bold bid for a share in the empire of the New World.
One in the eastern hemisphere and one in the western, where the Monroe Doctrine roamed.
He's doing it as his contribution to the Monroe Doctrine, and because he sees Castro as a threat to him.
I remind you of the Monroe Doctrine, Mister Ambassador, Armbruster said, and Nekrasov shook his head.
As global power shifted toward the United States with World War I, Washington was able to implement the Monroe Doctrine beyond its Caribbean sphere.