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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dogma
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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■ ADJECTIVE
political
▪ Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis?
▪ The Independent, launched in October 1986 with venture capital, seeks to be independent of political party dogma.
▪ Managers of trust hospitals will be judged on their ability to manage and not as apparatchiks of a political dogma.
religious
▪ These newspapers devoted much space to religious dogma and disputes.
▪ Though I had my doubts about all religious dogmas, still I retained the habit of prayer.
▪ The argument based on the sanctity of life is essentially a matter of religious dogma.
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▪ The dogma of the free market should be re-examined.
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▪ A religious insight like Julian's shows that a passive, unquestioning acceptance of received dogma is not enough.
▪ It meant nothing less than rewriting the dogma of molecular biology, almost a redefining of the meaning of life itself.
▪ Neither of these extreme dogma is applied rigorously today, but it is certainly still accepted that 2-D form makes good pattern.
▪ Protestantism concerned itself with the inscription of dogma, attention to the text, was more emphatically scriptural.
▪ The movement that had started as a reaction against dogma fell into doctrinal bickering.
▪ The solution offered might not conform to the dogma of either political party.
▪ They are modern pragmatists who reject the old nationalist dogma.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogma

Dogma \Dog"ma\ (d[o^]g"m[.a]), n.; pl. E. Dogmas (d[o^]g"m[.a]z), L. Dogmata (d[o^]g"m[.a]*t[.a]). [L. dogma, Gr. do`gma, pl. do`gmata, fr. dokei^n to think, seem, appear; akin to L. decet it is becoming. Cf. Decent.]

  1. That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.

    The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. -- Whewell.

  2. A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.

  3. A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.

    Syn: tenet; opinion; proposition; doctrine.

    Usage: -- Dogma, Tenet. A tenet is that which is maintained as true with great firmness; as, the tenets of our holy religion. A dogma is that which is laid down with authority as indubitably true, especially a religious doctrine; as, the dogmas of the church. A tenet rests on its own intrinsic merits or demerits; a dogma rests on authority regarded as competent to decide and determine. Dogma has in our language acquired, to some extent, a repulsive sense, from its carrying with it the idea of undue authority or assumption. This is more fully the case with its derivatives dogmatical and dogmatism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dogma

c.1600 (in plural dogmata), from Latin dogma "philosophical tenet," from Greek dogma (genitive dogmatos) "opinion, tenet," literally "that which one thinks is true," from dokein "to seem good, think" (see decent). Treated in 17c.-18c. as a Greek word in English.

Wiktionary
dogma

n. 1 An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it. 2 A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.

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WordNet
dogma

  1. n. a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof [syn: tenet]

  2. a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative; "he believed all the Marxist dogma"

  3. [also: dogmata (pl)]

Wikipedia
DOGMA

DOGMA, short for Developing Ontology-Grounded Methods and Applications, is the name of research project in progress at Vrije Universiteit Brussel's STARLab, Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory. It is an internally funded project, concerned with the more general aspects of extracting, storing, representing and browsing information.

Dogma (Tall Dwarfs album)

Dogma is a 12" EP by New Zealand band Tall Dwarfs released in 1987.

Dogma (studio)

Dogma is a Japanese adult video company based in Tokyo which specializes in various fetish genres of pornography.

Dogma (film)

Dogma is a 1999 American comedy film, written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars along with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo, Alanis Morissette, and Jason Mewes. It is the fourth film in Smith's View Askewniverse series. Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson, stars of the first Askewniverse film Clerks, have cameo roles, as do Smith regulars Scott Mosier, Dwight Ewell, Walt Flanagan, and Bryan Johnson.

The film's irreverent treatment of Catholicism and the Roman Catholic Church triggered considerable controversy, even before its opening. The Catholic League denounced it as "blasphemy". Organized protests delayed its release in many countries and led to at least two death threats against Smith. The plot revolves around two fallen angels who plan to employ an alleged loophole in Catholic dogma to return to Heaven, after being cast out by God; but as existence is founded on the principle that God is infallible, their success would prove God wrong and thus undo all creation. The last scion and two prophets are sent by the Voice of God to stop them.

Dogma (disambiguation)

Dogma is an established belief, doctrine or theological tenets.

Dogma may also refer to:

  • Central dogma of molecular biology
  • Dogma (Roman Catholic), the concept of dogma from a Roman Catholic perspective
  • Dogma (film), a 1999 film by Kevin Smith
  • Dogma (studio), a Japanese adult video company
  • DOGMA (Developing Ontology-Grounded Methods and Applications), a computer science research project
  • Dogme 95 or simply Dogme or Dogma, a manifesto about filmmaking aesthetics

In music:

  • The Dogma, an Italian metal band
  • Dogma (Tall Dwarfs album)
  • Dogma: Music from the Motion Picture, a soundtrack album from the 1999 film
  • "Dogma", a song by Marilyn Manson from Portrait of an American Family
  • "Dogma", a predominately spoken-word track by KMFDM from Xtort
Dogma (The Gazette album)

Dogma (stylized as DOGMA in Japan) is the eighth studio album by Japanese visual kei rock band the Gazette, released on August 26, 2015 in Japan and September 4, 2015 in the US by Sony Music Records and October 2, 2015 in the UK, Europe and Russia by JPU Records.

The album scored number 2 on its first day of release on the Oricon Daily Charts and number 3 on the Oricon Weekly Charts, selling 18,102 copies in its first week.

For DOGMA, the GazettE launched a very special project that goes beyond the music :

the GazettE released its eigth studio-album on August 26th 2016. Titled ‘DOGMA’, the band does with it everything on a grand and beauty scales ! The record is incorpored within the framework of a global conceptual scheme named ‘Project : Dark Age’ which marks the thirteenth anniversary of the combo. The project, which was launched over the course of March 2015, is being developed purposely through a range of thirteenth sub-projects represented graphically by a logo, a ring-shape dodecagon. The circle added to the twelve-sided polygon symbolizes the thirteeth line. The graphic choice, driven by the age of the band, is without a doubt well-thought since a twelve-star polygon is culturally linked to the Earthly Branches, an ancient means through which time is measured (duration, age). These sub-projects, commonly titled ‘movement’ — the notion of time is a corollary of the notion of movement — yet dissociated by ordinal numbers, are then revealed in further details in dribs and drabs. Album ‘DOGMA’, being the very first movement (located at the far north on the logo), is the core piece of the puzzle which encompasses other audiovisual and text elements created in association with 18 artists

Usage examples of "dogma".

That, so far as possible, all biologic instruction should be objective was with Agassiz an educational dogma, and upon several notable occasions its validity had been demonstrated under very unfavorable conditions.

Eventually, says their dogma, everyone will worship the beast under a brutal and absolute totalitarian dictatorship with the Antichrist as its leader, able to perform miracles to get the power and the following.

And in their effort to keep themselves from being engulfed in the apostacy of a great leader, the scientists, as by a unanimous chorus, announce that the scientific dogmas which enter more or less essentially into their atheistic conception of the universe, are nothing but surmises!

Johns, by nature as well as by education, was disposed to look distrustfully upon any sudden conviction of duty which had its spring in any extraordinary exaltation of feeling, rather than in that full intellectual seizure of the Divine Word, which it seemed to him could come only after a determined wrestling with those dogmas that to his mind were the aptest and compactest expression of the truth toward which we must agonize.

If there is one question which the enlightened and liberal have the habit of deriding and holding up as a dreadful example of barren dogma and senseless sectarian strife, it is this Athanasian question of the Co-Eternity of the Divine Son.

The tendency of the new doctrine was to break up the system of caste, and free the people from the galling yoke of the Brahminical hierarchy and dogmas.

It undoubtedly excludes from the Apostolic age the independent authority of any christological dogma besides that confession and the worship of Christ connected with it.

Yet afterwards, the Christological dogmas of the third and following centuries demanded a docetic explanation of many points in that history.

On this point there were differences of opinion, and these differences prove that there was no Christological dogma.

His work was the direct preparation for an impartial examination of the history of dogma however partial it was in itself Pietism, here and there, after Spener, declared war against scholastic dogmatics as a hindrance to piety, and in doing so broke the ban under which the knowledge of history lay captive.

Voltaire, who devoured the Bible, and ridiculed our dogmas, doubts, and after having made proselytes to impiety, is not ashamed, being reduced to the extremity of life, to ask for the sacraments, and to cover his body with more relics than St.

We cannot but regret that the Swedenborgian view of the future life should be burdened and darkened with the terrible error of the dogma of eternal damnation, spreading over the state of all the subjects of the hells the pall of immitigable hopelessness, denying that they can ever make the slightest ameliorating progress.

However, as it is necessary to be brief, it may be said that the holy fathers of the Lantern, after having heard the whole case as it was exposed to them by the great clerks of Pantagruel, having digested all the arguments, looked into the precedents, applied themselves to the doctrine, explored the hidden wisdom, consulted the Canons, searched the Scriptures, divided the dogma, distinguished the distinctions and answered the questions, resolved with one voice that there was no help in the world for Panurge, save only this: he must forthwith achieve the most high, noble and glorious quest of the Sangraal, for no other way was there under heaven by which he might rid himself of that pestilent wife of his, La Vie Mortale.

Behaviourism itself, indeed, had been originally a kind of inverted Puritan faith, according to which intellectual salvation involved acceptance of a crude materialistic dogma, chiefly because it was repugnant to the self-righteous, and unintelligible to intellectuals of the earlier schools.

At the beginning of the fourth century there was no community in Christendom which, apart from the Logos doctrine, possessed a purely philosophical theory that was regarded as an ecclesiastical dogma, to say nothing of an official scientific theology.