an undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.-the doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.-a doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of god.