Dogma
['dɒgmə] or ['dɔɡmə]
Definition
(noun.) a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative; 'he believed all the Marxist dogma'.
(noun.) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
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Definition
(n.) That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
(n.) A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
(n.) A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.
Editor: Roxanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Doctrine, tenet, opinion, principle, article of faith.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DOCTRINE]
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Definition
n. a settled opinion: a principle or tenet: a doctrine laid down with authority.—adjs. Dogmat′ic -al pertaining to a dogma: asserting a thing as if it were a dogma: asserting positively: overbearing.—adv. Dogmat′ically.—n. Dogmat′ics (theol.) the statement of Christian doctrines systematic theology.—v.i. Dog′matise to state one's opinion dogmatically or arrogantly.—ns. Dog′matiser; Dog′matism dogmatic or positive assertion of opinion; Dog′matist one who makes positive assertions; Dogmatol′ogy the science of dogma.—adj. Dog′matory.
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Examples
- Does some dogma of Calvin or Luther condemn it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The members assumed without criticism the traditional dogma of Christianity that sex in any manifestation outside of marriage is sinful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such a method was the only alternative to the imposition of dogma as truth, a procedure which reduced mind to the formal act of acquiescing in truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Nearly fifty thousand persons assembled in St. Peter's to hear the publishing of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They tend to confine their own thinking to a consideration of which one among the rival systems of dogma they will accept. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But one difference we in this age must note: they made their political man a dogma--we must leave him an hypothesis. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- On the other hand, the doctrine of following nature was a political dogma. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a destructive organ of criticism of hard and fast dogmas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Harvey professed to learn and teach anatomy, not from books, but from dissections, not from the dogmas of the philosophers, but from the fabric of nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There are, I hope, no assumptions put forward as dogmas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As to your small maxims, your narrow rules, your little prejudices, aversions, dogmas, bundle them off. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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