Docete
a name applied to those heretics in the early ages of the ing His life on earth, had not a real or Church who maintained that Christ , durnatural, but only an apparent or phantom-like body. The bolder docetæ assumed the position that Christ was born without any participation of matter; they denied accordingly the resurrection and the ascent into heaven. school of docetæ attributed to Christ an The milder ethereal and heavenly , instead of a truly human body.
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Dock Warrants
orders for goods kept in the warehouses connected with a dock. They are granted by the proper officer at the dock to the the importer in favor of any one that he may name. These warrants are held to be negoti able, so that they may pass from one holder to another, the property of them being always vested in the holder. DOCK YARD. See NAVY YARDS.
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Docket
or DOCQUET, in law, a term variously used, as for a summary of a larger writing; a small piece of paper or parchment containing the heads of a writing; an alphabetical list of cases in a court, or a catalogue of the names of the parties who have suits depending in a court.
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Doddridge
PHILIP, an English Nonconformist clergyman and author; born in London, June 26, 1702. The Duchess of Bedford offered him an education at either university and provision in the Church; but he determined to enter the Nonconformist ministry. He was educated at a theological academy at Kibworth, in Leicestershire. In 1723 Doddridge became pastor of the dissenting congregation at Kibworth. He settled in 1729 at Northampton as minister and president of a theological academy. Here he continued to preach and train young students for the ministry till shortly before his death, which occurred Oct. 26, 1751, in Lisbon. Doddridge was at once liberal and evangelical. His principal work is "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul" (1745), which has been translated into Dutch, German, Danish, French, and even Syriac and Tamil. Besides this, may be mentioned "The Family Expositor" (6 vols. 1739-1756). His hymns have carried his name over the English-speaking religious world, perhaps the best known being "Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes," and "O God of Bethel, by whose hand." His works fill 10 volumes (Leeds, 1802-1805). His "Correspondence and Diary" was edited by his great-grandson (5 vols. 1829-1831).
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Dodge City
a city of Kansas, the the county-seat of Ford co. It is on , Arkansas river, and on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fé and the Chicago, . Rock Island and Pacific railroads It stock-raisis the center of an important . In the ing and wheat-growing district shipping point seventies it was the chief offices and mafor cattle. The division Fe railroad are chine shops of the Santa located here. It is the seat of St. Mary's a public of the Plains Academy, and has United States Land Office library and a Pop and Weather Bureau building. . (1910) 3,214; (1920) 5,061.
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Dodge, Mary Abigail
Mary Abigail (1838-1896), an American writer, better known by her pen name of "Gail Hamilton." She was born at Hamilton, Massachusetts. For some years she taught in the high school at Hartford, Connecticut. She was one of the editors of Our Young Folks from 1865-67. Besides numerous contributions to current literature, Gail Hamilton was the author of Gala Days, Twelve Miles from a Lemon, Biography of James G. Blaine, Country Living and Country Thinking, and several other books. She was a widely known and much respected writer of current literature. Her style was vigorous, clear, and pleasing. She had a keen sense of humor, and took a deep interest in affairs which concerned the welfare of the country. She was well known among literary people. The story goes that in war times she sent Whittier a pair of slippers in facetious allusion to the well known fact that Whittier's sympathies with the North in the struggle were somewhat at variance with his Quaker principles. Each slipper was embroidered with a bristling war eagle with thunder-bolts clutched in his claws, but the colors were sober, Quaker gray. Gail Hamilton's writings are little read at the present time.
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Dodgson
CHARLES LUTWIDGE, an English humorist (better known by ); was his pen-name of Lewis Carroll Christ Church, born in 1832. He entered Oxford, graduated in 1854. He was college, took elected a student of his orders in 1861, and from 1855 to 1881 the was mathematical lecturer. Under he issued in 1865 name of Lewis Carroll ," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which, with its continuation "Through become the Looking-Glass" (1872), has . He also published a nursery classic entitled some poems and parodies "Phantasmagoria" (1869); "Hunting of " (1876); "Doublets" (1879); the Snark "Rhyme? and Reason?" (1883); "Euclid ); "A and His Modern Rivals" (1879 "Game of Logic" "Tangled Tale" (1886); Curiosa" (1887); and "Mathematica contribution (1888), the last a valuable Jan. 14, 1898. to mathematics. He died
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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898), an English clergyman. Mr. Dodgson was a distinguished mathematician and the author of several treatises on mathematical subjects. Over the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, he wrote stories for children, which have made him famous. The earliest of these was Alice in Wonderland, followed by Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, and Sylvie and Bruno. It is said that, when Alice in Wonderland was published first, Queen Victoria read it with great delight. She was so pleased that she sent out immediately for all of Mr. Dodgson's previous works, and found that they dealt with logarithms and the higher calculus. Lewis Carroll has proffered a merry antidote to the hyperaesthetic and other fads of the day. His Rhyme and Reason contains "Phantasmagoria" and "The Hunting of the Snark,"-bright audacities in which the fancy that created Alice in Wonderland plays without tether and affords delight to the healthy and fun-loving mind.-Stedman.
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Dodsley
ROBERT, an English poet and dramatist; born at Mansfield, Notts., in 1703. He was a noted bookseller and publisher in London, and had close relations with the authors of the time: Pope, Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, etc. His first volume of verses, "The Muse in Livery," was received with great favor, as was his satiric drama, "The Toy Shop," brought out at Covent Garden. He wrote the popular comedies: "The King and the Miller of Mansfield"; "Sir John Cockle at Court"; and the tragedy "Cleone." He died in Durham, Dec. 25, 1764.
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