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n war. It begins D, la, sol, re. Plato admires the music of theDoric mode, and judges it proper to preserve good manners asbeing masculine ; and on this account allows it in his common-wealth. The ancients had likewise their subdoric or hypodoricmode, which was one of the plagal modes. Its character was tobe very grave and solemn: it began with re, a fourth lower thanthe Doric .
Doric Order, the second of the live orders of architecture.It is usually placed upon the Attic base, though originally it hadnone. See Architecture. At its first invention it was moresimple than at present; and when in attertimes they came to adornand enrich it more, the appellation Doric was restrained to thisricher manner, and the primitive simple maimer they called by anew name, the Tuscan order, which was chiefly used in temples ;as the former, being more light and delicate, was for porticoes andtheatres.
DORIS, in ancient geography, a country of Greece , betweenPhocis, Thessaly, and Acarnania . It received its name fromDorus the son of Deucalion, who made a settlement there. Itwas called Tetrapolis, from its four cities, viz. Pindus or Dryopis,Erineum, Cytinium, and Borin m. To these foursome add Lilaiumand Carphia, and therefore call it Hexapolis. The name ofDoris has been common to many parts of Greece .
Doris, in entomology, a genus of the class and order vermestestacea. Body oblong, flat beneath, creeping; mouth placed lie-low ; vent behind surrounded with a fringe; feelers two, retractile.There are twenty-four species.
D. Argo, the Lemon Doris, has an oval body, convex, markedwith numerous punctures, of a lemon colour; the vent beset withelegant ramifications. It inhabits different parts of our seas, and iscalled about Brighthelmstone the sea lemon.
' Doris, in the mythology, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys,wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereides.
DORMANT, in heraldry, is used for the posture of a lion, orany other beast, lying along in a sleeping attitude with the headon the fore paws; by which it is distinguished from the coucliant,where though the beast is lying, yet he holds up his head.
DORMER , in architecture, signifies a window made in theroof of a house, or above the entablature, being raised upon therafters.
DORMITORY, a gallery in convents or religious houses, di-vided into several cells, in which the religious sleep or lodge.
Dormitory is sometimes used for a burying-place.
DORMOUSE. See Myoxus.
DORNBERG, a town of Germany, in the Upper Rhine , andprincipality of Hesse , eight miles N. N. \V. of Darmstadt.
Dornburg, a town of Germany , in Upper Saxony, and princi-pality of Weimar, 14 miles E. of Weimar .
DORNOCH, the county town of Sutherland, on the Frith ofDornoch in Scotland .
DOROBERN1A, the Roman name of Canterbury .
DOROBOI, or DOROHOI, a town of European Turkey , inMoldavia , 68 miles N. W. of Jassi, and 142 N. W. of Bender.
DORONICUM, Lfopard’s Bane: a genus of the polygamiasuperflua order, and syngenesia class of plants; natural order,Compositai. Receptacle naked; pappus simple ; scales of thecalyx in a double row, longer than the disc; seeds of the radiusnaked without any pappus. It lias three species natives of Spain ,Fiance, and Germany .
DORPT, a town of Russia, in Idvonia, 60 miles S. of Narva .Lon. 27. 52. E. Lat. 58. 18. N.
DORSETSHIRE, a county of England, bounded on the N.by Somersetshire and Wiltshire, on the E. by Hampshire , on theS. by the English channel, and on the W. by Devonshire. It isfor the most part hilly : the soil is in general shallow, over a chalkybottom, but in some of the valleys very rich; the whole is esti-mated at 775,000 acres. The number of sheep kept in thiscountry is averaged at upwards of 800,000. The chief towns areDorchester, Lyme, Shaftesbury, Pool, Bridport, Wareham , CorfCastle, Weymouth , Melcomb Regis, Sherborn, Blandford, Cran-born, Beminster, Abbotsbury, Bere, Evershot, Milton Abbey,Frampton, Stalbridge, Sturminster, Ccrne, and Winburn; ofwhich the first nine are borough towns, and send each two mem-bers to parliament. The principal rivers are the Stour, the l’roine,9 nd the Piddle, The climate is mild and healthy.
DOKSTEN, a town of Germany , in the circle of the LowerRhine, 31 miles S. W. of Munster.
DORSTENIA, Contrayeuva, a genus of the nionogyniaorder, and tetrandria class of plants; natural order, Scabridai. Re-ceptacle common, monophyllous, fleshy; seeds lying singly in thefleshy substance. 'There are eight species, low heibai eous plants ;growing in the warm countries of America . See Plate XXXV'.
DORSUM, the Back, in anatomy, comprehends all the posteriorparts of the body from the neck to the buttocks. See Anatomy.
DORT, or DORDRECHT, a city of Holland , in the depart-ment of Delft, and late province of Holland , ten miles S. E.of Rotterdam . Lon. 4. 48. E. Lat. 51. 50. N.
Dort, Synod of, a national synod, summoned by authority ofthe States General, the provinces of Holland, Utrecht , and Overys-sel excepted, and held at Dort in 1618. 'The most eminent di-vines of the United Provinces , and deputies from the churches ofEngland, Scotland, Switzerland, Bremen, Hessia, and the Palati-nate , assembled on this occasion, in order to decide the controversybetween the Gomarists or Calvinists , ami Arminians: the latterwere declared corrupters of the true religion. But the authorityof this synod was far from being universally acknowledged eitherin Holland or in England. The provinces oi Friesland , ifea-land, Utrecht, Gucklcrland, and Groningen , could not be per-suaded to adopt their decisions: and they were opposed by kingJames I. and archbishop Laud in England. The liberty of pri-vate judgement with respect to the doctrines of predestination andgrace, which the spirit that prevailed among the divines of Dortseemed- so much adapted to discourage and suppress, acquirednew vigour in consequence of the arbitrary proceedings of thisassembly.
DORTMUND, a city of Germany , in \yestphalia, 35 milesN. E. of Cologne. Lon. 7. 35. E. Lat. 51. 26. N.
DORYPIIOR1, [from iojv, a spear, and to bear,] an ap-pellation given to the life-guard men of the Roman emperors.
DOSE, [ion;,] so much of any medicine as is taken at onetime.
DOSITI1EANS, or DOSITHEI, an ancient sect among theSamaritans in the first century. 'They were named after theirleader, Dositheus, mentioned by Origen, Epipbanius, Jeroni,end other Greek and Latin fathers: But tiie learned are not atall agreed as to the time wherein he lived. St. Jerom, in his Di-alogue against the LuciferIans, places him before our Saviour;wherein he is followed by Drusius, who in his answer to Serrariusplaces him about the time of Sennacherib king of Assyria . ButScaliger will have him posterior to our Saviour’s time : And Ori-gen intimates him to have been contemporary with the apostles ;where he observes, that he endeavoured to persuade the Samari-tans that he was the Messiah foretold by Moses , lie had manyfollowers; and his sect was still subsisting at Alexandria in thetime of the Patriarch Eulogius, as appears from a decree of thatpatriarch published tiy Phocius. In that decree Eulogius ac-cuses Dositheus of injuriously treating the ancient patriarchs anilprophets, and attributing to himself the spirit of prophecy. Hemakes him contemporary with Simon Magus ; and accuses him ofcorrupting the Pentateuch in divers places, and of composingseveral hooks directly contrary to the law of God, ArchbishopUssher takes Dositheus to have been the author of all the changesmade in the Samaritan Pentateuch, which lie argues from theauthority of Eulogius . But all we can justly gather from the tes-timony of Eulogius is, that Dositheus corrupted the Samaritan copies since used by that sect; but that corruption did not passinto all the copies of the Samaritan Pentateuch now in use amongus, many of which vary but little from the Jewish Pentateuch.
DOTHAN , in ancient geography, a city twelve miles N. ofSamaria, 44 of Jerusalem , and six VV. of 'Tiberias; where Josephwas sold to the Ishmaelites, and where Elisha struck the Syriansblind.
DOTTEREL, a bird. See Charadrrius,
DOUARNENEZ, a sea-port town of France , in the depart-ment of Einisterrc, 104 miles N. \V. of Quimper.
DOUAY, a considerable town of France , in the departmentof the North, and late French Flanders, 15 miles N. VV. of Cam-bray. Eon. 3. 10. E. Lat. 50.22. N.
DOUBLE Cast, in husbandry, a term used by the farmers forthat method of sowing that does not dispense the necessary quan-tity