''Docere'' is a Latin word that means to instruct, teach, or point out.

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

first introduced this term in his book ''

De Oratore ''De Oratore'' (''On the Orator''; not to be confused with ''Orator'') is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BC. It is set in 91 BC, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before the Social War and the civil war between Marius and Sulla, du ...

''. Cicero wrote this book in 55 BC as a dialogue to describe the ideal speaker and imagine him as a moral guidance of the state. He suggested that there are three duties or goals of

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

. He described these as 'to teach, to delight and to move' (''docere''/''probare'', '' delectare''/''conciliare'', ''movere''/''flectere''). Cicero breaks down the term Docere further and summarizes that 'to teach' means to provide truth through rational argument and statement of facts. "So the whole rhetoric focused on three factors that serve the conviction to prove the truth of what we represent, winning the sympathy of our audience and the influence of his feelings in terms of what the speech subject in each case requires." The "docere" is the mode of action, "which aims at a rational cognitive process and the intellectual abilities of the addressee responds". The production of an intellectual conviction can be done on the basis of rational argument or simply take the form of a statement of facts. In this sense, two forms of "docere" can be distinguished: the message (e.g., enumeration of facts, notice of the speech objective, objective statement of fact or event) and the evidence (e.g. as an argument or complex argument) "Here, the speaker has a twofold evidence, once on the things you can not come up with a speaker that lie rather in the matter and must be treated methodically, such as documents, witness statements, contracts, agreements, awkward interviews, laws, Senate decisions, court judgments, decrees, legal advice and anything else not as found by the speaker, but approached with the case and the accused to him, and the other is that which depends entirely on the representation and reasoning of the speaker. " - Cicero: About 2,116 speakers"De Oratore" in Cicero Rhetorica. Vol. I (De Oratore) Edited by

Augustus Samuel Wilkins Augustus Samuel Wilkins (1843–1905) was an English classical scholar. He held a professorship of Latin in Manchester for 34 years. Life He was born in Enfield Road, Kingsland, London, on 20 August 1843 into a Congregationalist family, the son ...

Clarendon Press Oxford Classical Texts 264 pages , 238x167mm 978-0-19-814615-5 , Hardback , 26 March 1963 The word "

doctor Doctor or The Doctor may refer to: Personal titles * Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree * A medical practitioner, including: ** Physician ** Surgeon ** Dentist ** Veterinary physician ** Optometrist *Other roles ** ...

" is derived from the word "docere".

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