Crossword clues for dogmatic
dogmatic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), dogmatical \dog*mat`ic*al\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]*kal), a. [L. dogmaticus, Gr. dogmatiko`s, fr. do`gma: cf. F. dogmatique.]
Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
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Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.
Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. -- Spectator.
[They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. -- Glanvill.
Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.
Syn: Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.
dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), n. One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Late Latin dogmaticus, from Greek dogmatikos "pertaining to doctrines," from dogma (see dogma). Related: Dogmatical (c.1600).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context philosophy medicine English) Adhering only to principles which are true ''a priori'', rather than truths based on evidence or deduction. 2 Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal. 3 Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial. n. One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
WordNet
adj. characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles [syn: dogmatical]
relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "dogmatic".
I showed it, but I found the flat, dogmatic, English way in which Angers put his warning very unpleasant.
Really opposed, as Cartesianism has been in France, to the scholasticism which still reigned, its dogmatic form nevertheless bore such external similarity to it that it fell in with the old literary tastes.
But under the improved state of religion, a Voetian was invariably placed in the chair of dogmatic theology, a Cocceian in that of exegesis, and a follower of Lampe in charge of practical theology.
The popular hells have ever been built on hierarchic selfishness, dogmatic pride, and personal cruelty, and have been walled around with arbitrary and traditional rituals.
But the Judaizing party bore a heavy preponderance in the early Church, and has succeeded unto this day in imposing on ecclesiastical Christendom its own test: namely, a sound dogmatic, belief in the supreme personal rank and office of Christ, as the only means of admission to the kingdom of heaven.
Catholic dogmatic, as it was developed after the second or third century on the basis of the Logos doctrine, is Christianity conceived and formulated from the standpoint of the Greek philosophy of religion.
In place of this test, the orthodox ecclesiastical party made their test dogmatic belief in the supernatural Messiahship of Jesus Christ, formal profession of allegiance to the official person of Jesus Christ.
It was the favourite weapon of the Pyrrhonists against the dogmatic philosophies that flourished after the death of Aristotle.
Faith, he asserts, is essential, but as a practical, not a dogmatic, attitude, and it must go with toleration of other faiths, with the search for the most probable, and with the full consciousness of responsibilities and risks.
But they have simultaneously obscured a wide range of subjective phenomena, including consciousness itself, and in this way dogmatic adherence to these assumptions has limited scientific research and impoverished our understanding of nature as a whole.
He looked annoyed, and escorted me to the dogmatic school, where my comrades of the dormitory received me with great astonishment, and in the afternoon, at play time, they gathered around me and made me very happy with their professions of friendship.
It is a record of how people can see fish and call them flesh or fowl, according to the conventionalisms of dogmatic tutors as purblind as themselves, according to their personal fears of losing invisible shares in non-existent heavenly mansions, according to their credulous belief that God may deny them wings if they, in turn, assert that a sight authoritatively declared to be straight from heaven may indeed have come straight from hell.
The empirical study of the mind, unconstrained by the dogmatic principles of scientific materialism and all other religious creeds, awaits us.
I could not stand his dogmatic assuredness about issues in my own life that I was not sure of myself.
My book is not a work of dogmatic theology, but I do not think it will do harm to anyone.