Docility: alternatives and connections

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Acade…

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necess…

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.

Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.

Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.

One who is self-taught; an automath.

One who is self-taught.

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…

Aptness to break; fragility.

A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when o…

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlight…

One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward…

The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.

A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in th…

The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can…

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Coper…