It still means " doctrine " when the collected decreta of Trent bear on their title-page (1564) reference to an Index dogmatum et reformationis; but here " dogma " is already verging towards the narrower and more precise sense - truth defined by church authority.
The spell, however, of O'Connell's power had vanished; his health had suffered much from a short confinement; he was verging upon his seventieth year; and he was alarmed and pained by the growth of a party in the repeal ranks who scoffed at his views, and advocated the revolutionary doctrines which he had always feared and abhorred.
It was elliptical, and its long Diameter was perpendicular to the Horizon, verging below farthest from the moon."
The effects of a protectionist policy verging upon prohibition were soon sharply felt in.
But there is no doubt that the possibility of episodes of violence, verging on open civil war is more likely.