Crossword clues for dogmatist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogmatist \Dog"ma*tist\, n. [L. dogmatistes, Gr. ?, fr. ?.] One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles.
I expect but little success of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument. -- Glanvill.
Wiktionary
n. A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
WordNet
n. a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions [syn: doctrinaire]
Usage examples of "dogmatist".
Stalinist, a Leftist deviationist, terroristic opportunist, dogmatist.
She answered sharply that she was neither dogmatist nor revisionist nor sectarian nor deviationist, that those were all words of ours, that we had invented them, that they belonged to us, and that they were completely alien to them.
Birgeli, otherwise known as Mulla Muhammad Ibn Pir Ali ul-Birkali, was equally great as a dogmatist and as a grammarian.
There have been three famous talkers in Great Britain, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists well enough for my purpose.
The old Master, whose words I have so frequently quoted and shall quote more of, is a dogmatist who lays down the law, ex cathedra, from the chair of his own personality.
For the Christian dogmatists were trying to establish a reign of holiness, and trying to get defined, first of all, what was really holy.
But my main point, at present, is to notice that the chief among these writers I have discussed do most sanely and courageously offer themselves as dogmatists, as founders of a system.
These torrents soon became a diluvial sea, in which the last dogmatists were drowned.
The self-sufficiency of egotistic natures was never more fully shown than in the expositions of the worthlessness and wretchedness of their fellowcreatures given by the dogmatists who have "gone back," as the vulgar phrase is, on their race, their own flesh and blood.
The best representatives of the type are Condorcet,[20] among the Girondins, and Robespierre, among the Montagnards, both mere dogmatists and pure logicians, the latter the most remarkable and with a perfection of intellectual sterility never surpassed.
The medical materialists are therefore only so many belated dogmatists, neatly turning the tables on their predecessors by using the criterion of origin in a destructive instead of an accreditive way.
Every one of our proofs has been deduced from the nature of the case, and no advantage has been taken of the wrong conclusions of dogmatists on either side.
Terrifying figures in stark black and white, these nuns were dogmatists first and foremost, and modern dogmatists at that.