Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
- adj. Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles. See Synonyms at dictatorial.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a dogma or an authoritatively settled doctrine; pertaining to dogma or authoritative doctrine in general: as, dogmatic theology.
- Asserting, or disposed to make positive assertions of, opinion, doctrine, or fact without presenting argument or evidence, or in an overbearing and arrogant manner.
- In the Kantian philosophy, relating to that kind of metaphysics which deduces its doctrines syllogistically, or from the analysis of conceptions, setting out with those which seem perfectly clear and distinct: opposed to critical.
- n. Same as dogmatics.
- n. A dogmatist.
Wiktionary
- adj. Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
- adj. Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
- adj. Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the
Empiric . - adj. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
- adj. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
- adj. relating to or involving dogma
- adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
Etymologies
- Late Latin dogmaticus, from Greek dogmatikos, from dogma, dogmat-, belief; see dogma.
Examples
“If so, it seems that the term dogmatic has really lost all meaning, and can be applied to anyone who believes that the priciples they live by preclude certain solutions to certain problems.”
“In the stricter sense the term dogmatic fact is confined to books and spoken discourses, and its meaning will be explained by a reference to the condemnation by Innocent X of five propositions taken from the posthumous book of Jansenius, entitled”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“Meanwhile, Fay Glinister has made a great article that seeks to smash apart what she identifies as a dogmatic belief by modern historians in Veiled and unveiled: Uncovering Roman influence in Hellenistic Italy 2009.”
“This pejorative connotation is even stronger with the term dogmatic, used to describe a person of rigid beliefs who is not open to rational argument.”
“That, in turn, is accomplished through what he identifies as dogmatic doubt, not the Cartesian doubt that deems everything false so as to find a first indubitable principle, a useless enterprise, according to Thomasius.”
“Kant himself distinguished two types of philosophy, which he called the dogmatic and critical types.”
“But the key seems to be to know when to say, “No, I am going to disagree on this and this or that and that,” and not get wrapped up in dogmatic debates about The Way.”
“Your definition of it as dogmatic is the issue, because you have never justified it.”
“Cleo accuses him of "excellent dissembling" in dogmatic love, which she is "all forgotten.”
“Apostles Seminary and Bachelor, Licentiate, and Doctorate degrees in dogmatic theology from the University of Navarre in Spain.”
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