The Most Profound Doctor, AEgidius de Columna (_-1316).

The Most Resolute Doctor, Durand de St. Pourcain (1267-1332).

The Perspicuous Doctor, Walter Burley (fourteenth century).

The Profound Doctor, Thomas Bradwardine (_-1349).

The Scholastic Doctor, Anselm of Laon (1050-1117).

The Seraphic Doctor, St. Bonaventura (1211-1274).

The Solemn Doctor, Henry Goethals (1227-1293).

The Solid Doctor, Richard Middleton (_-1304).

The Subtle Doctor, Duns Scotus (1265-1308), or Most Subtle Doctor.

The Thorough Doctor, William Varro (thirteenth century).

The Universal Doctor, Alain de Lille (1114-1203); Thomas Aquinas, (1224-1274).

The Venerable Doctor, William de Champeaux (_-1126).

The Well-founded Doctor, AEgidius Romanus (_-1316).

The Wise Doctor, John Herman Wessel (1409-1489).

The Wonderful Doctor, Roger Bacon (1214-1292).

DOCTOR’S TALE (The), in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, is the Roman story of Virginius given by Livy.  This story is told in French in the Roman de la Rose, ii. 74, and by Gower in his Confessio Amantis, vii.  It has furnished the subject of a host of tragedies:  for example, in French, Mairet (1628); Leclerc (1645); Campestron (1683); Chabenon (1769); Laharpe (1786); Leblanc de Guillet (1786); Guiraud (1827); Latour St. Ybars (1845).  In Italian, Alfieri (1784); in German, Lessing (1775); and in English, Knowles, (1829).

DOCTOR’S WIFE (The,) a novel by Miss Braddon, adapted from Madam
Bovary, a French novel.

DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH.  The Greek Church recognizes four doctors, viz., St. Athanasius, St. Basil, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. John Chrysostom.  The Latin Church recognizes St. Augustin, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose and St. Gregory the Great.

DODGER (The Artful), the sobriquet of Jack Dawkins, an artful thievish young scamp, in the boy crew of Fagin the Jew villain.—­C.  Dickens, Oliver Twist, viii. (1837).

DODINGTON, whom Thomson invokes in his Summer, is George Bubb Dodington, lord Melcomb-Regis, a British statesman.  Churchill and Pope ridiculed him, while Hogarth introduced him in his picture called the “Orders of Periwigs.”

DOD’IPOL, (Dr.), any man of weak intellect, a dotard.  Hence the proverb, Wise as Dr. Dodipoll, meaning “not wise at all.”

DODON or rather DODOENS (Rembert) a Dutch botanist (1517-1585), physician to the emperors Maximilian II. and Rudolph II.  His works are Frumentomm et Leguminum Historia; Florum Historia; Purgantium Radicum Herbarum Historia; Stirpium Historia; all included under the general title of “The History of Plants.”