DOGMATIC; DOGMATICAL

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.

2.
a.

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.


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