doctrinal

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In their doctrinal manual, Warfighting, the US Marine Corps use the same term and with a similar meaning.

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Quick take

A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.

adjective

Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for doctrinal.

noun

A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.

adjective

Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.

Example sentences

In their doctrinal manual, Warfighting, the US Marine Corps use the same term and with a similar meaning.

The debate being doctrinal seem to make the debate seem unimprotant especially when people don't know what it is about.

Would you boycott any company with a Muslim, or for that matter, fundamentalist Christian, executive because of their doctrinal sexism?

It is amazing how many doctrinal issues either instantly disappear or don't even matter anymore.

The psychological implications of the doctrinal differences are far beyond my ability to untangle).

For the rest, I assume that one or the other is either wrong or incomplete, and hold off judgment until either scientific concensus or doctrinal assertion are changed.

Reminds me of the doctrinal wars I used to participate in when I was a Christian.

I only bring it up to illustrate the doctrinal ambiguity that is seen in almost every part of the law.

It really isn't correct to say materialism or science is doctrinal.

The ways laws are voted, how proceedings and courts work, how doctrinal knowledge is made available and legal professionals joinable, there's plenty of low-hanging fruit.

They’d be learning about the minute doctrinal differences and the irreconcilable rivalries between Catholic Hispanics and Protestant anglos, and even between Southern Methodists and Southern Baptists.

Look at all the really nasty doctrinal splits through history.

Quote examples

So it's important to "not get bogged down in internal doctrinal disputes", huh?

There's a fair amount of this on the right, as well--a lot of your goldbugs and "Austrians" are, like Krugman, taking one side in a 1930's era doctrinal dispute and ignoring the last several decades of economics.

I'd like to hear Eric the Flute explain how his goal of "not get bogged down in internal doctrinal disputes" squares with his decades-long ongoing feud with RMS about "free software" -vs- "open source software" on which he's based career?

"There's a fair amount of this on the right, as well--a lot of your goldbugs and "Austrians" are, like Krugman, taking one side in a 1930's era doctrinal dispute and ignoring the last several decades of economics." Can you show me a goldbug with a Nobel Prize in Economics and a column in a New York Times-class newspaper or other similar venue?