Dory
a popular name for Zeus Faber, an acanthopterygious fish, the typical one of the family Zeidx. It is family Zeidæ. It is found at times on the North Atlantic coasts and is much esteemed for eating.
It is very commonly called John Dory, which is a corruption of the French Jaune-dorée = golden-yellow. Also a small two-oared boat used by fishermen and 'longshoremen.
DOSITHEANS (from their founder, Dositheus), a sect founded by Dositheus, whose life and labors were in Samaria. The popular belief is that he was the first Christian "heretic." He is said to have been very rigid in his Sabbatarianism. His other opinions were partly Samaritan, partly Sadducean.