Dōc'tri-nā-taire',, n.

n. [Fr., L. Lat. doctrinarius, from doctrinare, to teach, from Lat. doctrina. See DOCTRINE.] One who rigidly applies to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or principles of his own philosophical system.

☞ In French history, the Doctrinaires were a constitutional party which originated after the restoration of the Bourbons, and represented the interests of liberalism and progress as opposed to the ultra royalists in the executive government and legislature. After the revolution of July, 1830, when they came into power, they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with the republicans and radicals who then came upon the stage. New Am. Cyc.