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‖ ipse dixit|ˈɪpsiː ˈdɪksɪt|
Pl. ipse dixits.
[L. ipse dixit, a translation of Gr. αὐτὸς ἔϕα ‘he himself (the master) said it’, a phrase used by the Pythagoreans.]
An unproved assertion resting on the bare authority of some speaker; a dogmatic statement; a dictum.
[1477Paston Lett. III. 214 He wold yeffe you his labore, be so ye payd for his costes. Ipse dixit.] 1572Whitgift Def. Aunsw. Admon. Tract viii. v. §13 Here is neither scripture, doctor, story, council, or anything else, but ipse dixit. 1601A. C. Answ. Let. Jesuited Gent. 13 A bare Ipse dixit, and nothing else. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 57 His Dogmatical Ipse Dixits may rather be a reason why we should not believe him. 1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. X. 423 Criticism deals too much in ipse-dixits. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent ii. viii. 255 To emancipate us from the capricious ipse dixit of authority.
attrib.1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 125 note, On other occasions the ipse dixit principle..was..seated..on the same throne.
†b. transf. Applied to the speaker. Obs.
1641Trapp Theol. Theol. 126 Christ is the only Rabbin, the irrefragable Doctor, the Ipse dixit, all the words of whose mouth are right words.
Hence ipse-dixitism |ɪpsɪˈdɪksɪtɪz(ə)m|, dogmatic assertion. So ipse-ˈdixitish a., ipse-ˈdixitist.
1808Coleridge in Sir H. Davy's Rem. (1858) 103, I..myself think it shallow, flippant, and ipse dixitish. a1832Bentham Deontology (1834) I. xx. 321 Why the ipse-dixit root should not produce all the branches necessary to discourse,—as ipse-dixitists, and ipse-dixitism. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. The. II. 93 Bentham denounces all appeals to a moral faculty as sheer ‘ipse dixitism’. 1896J. B. Mayor New Suppl. Guide Choice Classical Bks. Pref. 11 In contrast to this ipse-dixitism, as Bentham would have called it. |