dogmaticn.adj.

Brit.

/dɒɡˈmatɪk/, U.S.

/dɔɡˈmædɪk/,

/dɑɡˈmædɪk/

Forms: 1600s dogmaticke, 1600s dogmatique, 1600s–1700s dogmatick, 1600s– dogmatic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French dogmatique; Latin dogmaticus.

Etymology: < (i) French dogmatique (noun) physician of the dogmatist school (1537 in Middle French, in the passage translated in quot. ?1541 at dogmatist n. 1a), philosopher of the dogmatic school (1662), intellectual approach based not upon experience or induction but upon established knowledge or opinion in a field (1694), (adjective) not based upon experience or induction, relating to a particular body of knowledge or opinion (17th cent.; 1537 in Middle French in uncertain meaning), that affirms in an absolute manner (a1654), relating to religious or philosophical doctrines (a1662), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin dogmaticus relating to Christian teaching, (of physicians) proceeding upon general principles (5th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek δογματικός didactic (in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a Greek word), proceeding upon general principles < ancient Greek δογματ- , δόγμα dogma n. + -ικός -ic suffix. With use as noun compare also post-classical Latin dogmaticus (masculine) dogmatic person (15th cent. in a British source), dogmatica (neuter plural) orthodox teachings (6th cent.). Compare Spanish dogmático (1605), Portuguese dogmático (1619), Italian dogmatico (1585, earliest as noun). Compare earlier dogmatical adj.With dogmatic philosophy at sense B. 1 compare Hellenistic Greek ϕιλοσοϕία δογματική ; with dogmatic medicine at sense B. 1 compare Hellenistic Greek δογματικοί ἰατροί dogmatic physicians.

A. n.

a. A physician of the dogmatic school (see sense B. 1); = dogmatist n. 1a, rationalist n. 1b. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > ancient > dogmatist

dogmatist?1541

dogmatic1605

dogmatician1771

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Pref. 5 Among Physitians there are Empericks, Dogmaticks, Methodici, or Abbreuiators, and Paracelsians.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. vii. 230 So as where Galen mentions in his time but three sects of physitians, Emperikes, Methodists, and Dogmatiques; we haue now a fourth.

1654 N. Culpeper tr. S. Partlitz New Method of Physick ix. 42 Alchymists have many singular precepts..in administring Physick contrary to the Opinion of the Dogmaticks.

1743 R. James Medicinal Dict. I. Pref. p. xxxvii Erasistratus and Herophilus, says Galen, were but half Dogmatics; they would only treat with the Remedies suggested by Reason the Diseases of the organical or instrumental Parts.

1772 J. MacLurg Exper. Human Bile Introd. p. xiii The sphere of observation has been farther extended by dogmatics, than by the men who pretend to give it so much merit.

1846 Lancet 3 Jan. 16/1 After this, the fashionable novelist [sc. Bulwer Lytton] has only to found a new sect of dogmatics.

1989 Hastings Center Rep. 19 41/3 A longstanding tension in medicine between ‘dogmatics’, who see the central task of medicine as diagnosis through generalization, and ‘empirics’ who find the key to medicine in the uniqueness and idiosyncrasy of each particular patient.

2000 Isis 91 474 He [sc. Duchesne] began his defense with the historical claim that the iatrochemical school..did not constitute a new heterodoxy but was in truth much older than the three traditional medical sects of the empirics, the methodics, and the dogmatics.

b. A philosopher of the dogmatic school; = dogmatist n. 1b. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > dogmatism and its adherents

dogmatist1603

dogmatica1631

dogmatism1697

a1631 J. Donne Iuuenilia (1633) sig. D1^v The Skeptike,..was more contentious, than..the Dogmaticke.

1650 T. Hobbes De Corpore Politico 165 All these Opinions are maintained in the Books of the Dogmaticks, and divers of them taught in Publick Chaires.

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 57 A Suspension [of judgment] suited not with the Dogmaticks, who can hardly confess that they know not all things.

1725 tr. P.-D. Huet Philos. Treat. conc. Weakness Human Understanding i. xvi. 115 Timon of Phlius..ridicul'd the Boldness of the Dogmaticks by some jeering Verses.

1889 E. Hatch Infl. Greek Ideas upon Christian Church (1890) 123 The Dogmatics..were in possession of the field of educated thought.

1922 I. Andersen & G. F. Hill tr. A. B. Drachmann Atheism in Pagan Antiq. vi. 108 The famous philosopher Carneades..made a success by his searching negative criticism of the doctrines of the other philosophical schools (the Dogmatics).

1939 Philos. Rev. 48 483 The third objection of Aenesidemus against the dogmatics (Stoics), namely, that of assigning to orderly events causes (reasons) which exhibit no order.

1973 Jrnl. Philos. 6 Dec. 807 Sextus explicitly warns us that Carneades is saying all these things only in opposing the dogmatics.

2. A dogmatic person. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun] > person holding

dogmatizer1600

dogmatic1650

dogmatist1654

ultra1823

doctrinaire1831

Doctrinarian1836

mad mullah1838

doctrinist1840

ultraist1842

stalwart1899

fundamentalist1913

pontificator1934

Islamicist1963

1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature xiii. §4 The fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass every where for truth.

1896 E. A. Vizetelly tr. E. Zola Rome xvi. 577 Oh! you little men of shallow or distorted brains, you politicians planning expedients, you dogmatics at bay, you authoritarians so obstinately clinging to the ancient dreams.

1954 G. Wint Brit. in Asia v. 195 But the co-operation was always uneasy: the Communists were dogmatics who had their plans.

3. = dogmatics n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > dogmatics

dogmaticals1605

dogmatics1693

dogmatic1857

1857 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 335 The Reformation dogmatic rests on..the exclusive sufficiency of Scripture.

1894 E. K. Mitchell tr. Harnack Outl. Hist. Dogma i. 28 Dogmatic is a positive science which has to take its material from history.

1920 J. N. Farquhar Outl. Relig. Lit. India vi. 278 Jain apologetic, dogmatic, and philosophy were eagerly cultivated.

2006 S. Sydnor in M. G. Phillips Deconstructing Sport Hist. ix. 208 This new Christian dogmatic is not a reinvention of the Christian faith.

B. adj.

1. Proceeding upon principles accepted a priori as true, instead of being founded upon experience or induction, as dogmatic philosophy, dogmatic medicine.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [adjective] > dogmatic

dogmatic1615

dogmatical1728

dogmatory1838

the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [adjective] > other theories or doctrines

empiric?a1425

empirical1569

dogmatical1596

dogmatic1615

Brunonian1781

Thomsonian1833

pneumatic1842

stœchiological1875

solidistic1876

biochemical1885

orificial1887

physiatric1897

naturopathic1901

orgonomic1949

bioethical1971

1615 W. Barclay Callirhoe Ep. Ded. A5 There is no dogmaticke Physician in Europe, which doth not allow the vse of Iron & Vitriol in the cures of many diseases.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Dogmatick Philosophy, is that which [1706 being grounded upon sound Principles] positively assures a thing, and is opposed to Sceptic.

1743 A. Cowper Progress Physic (ed. 2) 11 Being a Master of Experience as well as of Analogy and Reason, and withal vers'd in pure Philosophy, [Hippocrates] first made Physic rational, and laid the Foundation of the Dogmatic Medicine which has since obtain'd.

1789 T. Holcroft tr. M. Jordan Let. in Posthumous. Wks. Frederic II IX. 109 Nor is this the first vexation which the spirit of doubt has occasioned me. Had I taken a dose of dogmatic philosophy, I should have immediately been positive.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Dogmatic sect (Med.), an ancient sect of physicians, at the head of which is placed Hippocrates.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic x. 330 The foundations of all philosophy, whether dogmatic, critical, or sceptical.

1910 R. D. Hicks Stoic & Epicurean 376 Ænesidemus undertook to arrange the whole material at the disposal of the Sceptic in his contention against the dogmatic position under ten heads or tropes.

1953 Isis 44 213 The dogmatic school was rivalled by the new empirical sect that banished the search for hidden causes and referred the physician to experience.

1972 A. Bowness Mod. European Art ii. 37 His procedure is always empirical, not dogmatic—Cézanne is not following a set of rules, but trying, with every new picture, to record his sensations before nature.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Nov. 42/4 The style of philosophy to which Kant self-consciously opposed his critique he called dogmatic philosophy, meaning that it took the supposed deliverances of reason at their face value, without asking how they were grounded in the structure of human thought and experience.

2. Of, relating to, or of the nature of dogma or dogmas; characterized by or consisting of dogma; doctrinal.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > [adjective]

doctrinal1570

dogmatical1580

dogmatic1624

opinionativea1638

society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > [adjective]

doctrinal1570

dogmatical1580

dogmatic1624

1624 J. Vicars tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm iv. 42 Dogmaticke dunghils, Popes to make haue power.

1669 T. Gale (title) A true idea of Jansenisme, both historick and dogmatick.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dogmatical or Dogmatick, relating to a Dogma, instructive.

a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. xiv. 134 Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 28 The rest of his compositions are versified treatises of dogmatic theology.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii. 49 A..Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. v. 350 No inclination to substitute dogmatic Protestantism for dogmatic Catholicism.

1914 R. A. Nicholson Mystics of Islam 27 The Sūfīs are not a sect, they have no dogmatic system.

1951 H. H. Rowley Old Test. & Mod. Study xi. 312 The distinction which he drew between biblical and dogmatic theology has been accepted as axiomatic.

2003 J. Haldane Intelligent Person's Guide to Relig. i. 22 Another traditional and dogmatic religion is Islam, itself with more than a billion adherents.

3. Concerned with propounding opinions; didactic. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [adjective]

instructivea1492

preceptivea1525

instructing1561

documentalc1575

dogmatical1580

doctrinablea1586

doctrinal1597

didactical1603

didascalic1609

tutorly1611

schooling1614

indoctrinating1642

disciplinable1644

docenta1645

institutionary1646

protreptic1658

protreptical1662

dogmatic1678

educating1699

didactive1723

educativea1750

tuitive1776

educatory1792

didactic1799

instructional1801

tuitionary1816

instructionary1824

didascalara1846

teaching1853

tuitional1861

documentary1873

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV Pref. To render our Discourse the lesse offensive, we have cast it into a thetic and dogmatic method, rather than agonistic and polemic.

1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xiv. 84 Such an one has no Talent for discovering and humouring the Boy's Genius; but teaches him by some dogmatic Method.

1779 E. Gibbon Vindic. Passages Hist. Decline & Fall Rom. Empire 110 He may learn from Jerom the difference of the gymnastic and dogmatic styles.

1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 12 Dec. 752/3 Let us add, nevertheless, a single illustration of the absurd results of a carping and dogmatic style of criticism.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 5 He is no longer interrogative but dogmatic.

1908 E. Channing Hist. U.S. (1913) II. i. 26 The Introduction is written in a dogmatic style and reflects the author's theory of the inherent wickedness of colonists.

1975 H. H. Quint & M. Cantor Men, Women, & Issues Amer. Hist. II. ii. 26 His crisp and dogmatic style of teaching appealed to students.

†a. Of assured opinion, convinced. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] > persuaded, convinced

surea1400

probate?1511

strong1526

satisfied1533

persuaded1538

convict1558

dogmatic1678

well-wrought1684

convinced1685

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 434 From sundry other places of his writings, it sufficiently appears, that he [sc. Cicero] was a Dogmatick and Hearty Theist.

b. Of a person, or his or her writing, speech, etc.: that asserts or imposes dogmas or opinions in an authoritative, imperious, or arrogant manner; inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective]

high?1535

Arctic1593

magistral1596

forward1608

confident1611

magisterial1635

pragmatic1638

high-flown1640

affirmative1650

thetical1653

positive1658

pragmatical1660

dogmatical1662

dogmatic1681

unargumentative1722

ultra1820

doctrinaire1834

cocksure1842

doctrinary1846

unevidential1853

Doctrinarian1878

pontificating1922

fundamentalist1928

hardcore1951

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Dogmatic, stiff in opinion.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 253. ¶7 Those Criticks who write in a positive Dogmatick Way.

1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. III. 73 He wrote against dogmas with a spirit perfectly dogmatic.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 306 Not by dogmatic delivery of truths, but by scientific training in the method of enquiry.

1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters viii. 200 One is afraid of being dogmatic about it, and of being dogmatically wrong.

1916 W. Owen Let. 13 July (1967) 399 His dogmatic, pig-headed, preachifying, self-sufficient manners and domineering tone.

1937 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 18 Jan. 5/2 He is not dogmatic or dictatorial in pre-editing copy.

1955 J. K. Galbraith Great Crash x. 155 When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

1998 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Oct. 5 He was completely dogmatic and opinionated.

Derivatives

dogˈmaticism n. dogmatic quality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun]

dogmatism1603

pragmaticalness1626

positivenessa1649

magisteriousness1650

magisterialness1651

dogmaticalness1663

dogmaticality1705

cock-surety1819

ultraism1821

pontificating1825

doctrinairism1836

absolutism1854

dogmaticism1856

doctrinaritya1869

doctrinism1872

doctrinarianism1877

cocksureness1878

cocksureism1889

1856 J. H. Seelye tr. A. Schwegler Hist. Philos. in Epitome xix. iii. 151 The later Academicians fell back to an eclectic dogmaticism.

1880 A. M. Fairbairn Stud. Life Christ (1881) ix. 156 The dogmaticism he subtly concealed.

1940 Musical Times 81 452/2 The general style is dogmatic, not with the dogmaticism of the don, but with the dogmaticism of the undergraduate.

2000 Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. The resonance of mystery, sometimes forgotten by biblical or church dogmaticism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dogmatic
释义	dogmaticn.adj. Brit. /dɒɡˈmatɪk/, U.S. /dɔɡˈmædɪk/, /dɑɡˈmædɪk/ Forms: 1600s dogmaticke, 1600s dogmatique, 1600s–1700s dogmatick, 1600s– dogmatic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French dogmatique; Latin dogmaticus. Etymology: < (i) French dogmatique (noun) physician of the dogmatist school (1537 in Middle French, in the passage translated in quot. ?1541 at dogmatist n. 1a), philosopher of the dogmatic school (1662), intellectual approach based not upon experience or induction but upon established knowledge or opinion in a field (1694), (adjective) not based upon experience or induction, relating to a particular body of knowledge or opinion (17th cent.; 1537 in Middle French in uncertain meaning), that affirms in an absolute manner (a1654), relating to religious or philosophical doctrines (a1662), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin dogmaticus relating to Christian teaching, (of physicians) proceeding upon general principles (5th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek δογματικός didactic (in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a Greek word), proceeding upon general principles < ancient Greek δογματ- , δόγμα dogma n. + -ικός -ic suffix. With use as noun compare also post-classical Latin dogmaticus (masculine) dogmatic person (15th cent. in a British source), dogmatica (neuter plural) orthodox teachings (6th cent.). Compare Spanish dogmático (1605), Portuguese dogmático (1619), Italian dogmatico (1585, earliest as noun). Compare earlier dogmatical adj.With dogmatic philosophy at sense B. 1 compare Hellenistic Greek ϕιλοσοϕία δογματική ; with dogmatic medicine at sense B. 1 compare Hellenistic Greek δογματικοί ἰατροί dogmatic physicians. A. n. 1. a. A physician of the dogmatic school (see sense B. 1); = dogmatist n. 1a, rationalist n. 1b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > ancient > dogmatist dogmatist?1541 dogmatic1605 dogmatician1771 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Pref. 5 Among Physitians there are Empericks, Dogmaticks, Methodici, or Abbreuiators, and Paracelsians. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. vii. 230 So as where Galen mentions in his time but three sects of physitians, Emperikes, Methodists, and Dogmatiques; we haue now a fourth. 1654 N. Culpeper tr. S. Partlitz New Method of Physick ix. 42 Alchymists have many singular precepts..in administring Physick contrary to the Opinion of the Dogmaticks. 1743 R. James Medicinal Dict. I. Pref. p. xxxvii Erasistratus and Herophilus, says Galen, were but half Dogmatics; they would only treat with the Remedies suggested by Reason the Diseases of the organical or instrumental Parts. 1772 J. MacLurg Exper. Human Bile Introd. p. xiii The sphere of observation has been farther extended by dogmatics, than by the men who pretend to give it so much merit. 1846 Lancet 3 Jan. 16/1 After this, the fashionable novelist [sc. Bulwer Lytton] has only to found a new sect of dogmatics. 1989 Hastings Center Rep. 19 41/3 A longstanding tension in medicine between ‘dogmatics’, who see the central task of medicine as diagnosis through generalization, and ‘empirics’ who find the key to medicine in the uniqueness and idiosyncrasy of each particular patient. 2000 Isis 91 474 He [sc. Duchesne] began his defense with the historical claim that the iatrochemical school..did not constitute a new heterodoxy but was in truth much older than the three traditional medical sects of the empirics, the methodics, and the dogmatics. b. A philosopher of the dogmatic school; = dogmatist n. 1b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > dogmatism and its adherents dogmatist1603 dogmatica1631 dogmatism1697 a1631 J. Donne Iuuenilia (1633) sig. D1^v The Skeptike,..was more contentious, than..the Dogmaticke. 1650 T. Hobbes De Corpore Politico 165 All these Opinions are maintained in the Books of the Dogmaticks, and divers of them taught in Publick Chaires. 1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 57 A Suspension [of judgment] suited not with the Dogmaticks, who can hardly confess that they know not all things. 1725 tr. P.-D. Huet Philos. Treat. conc. Weakness Human Understanding i. xvi. 115 Timon of Phlius..ridicul'd the Boldness of the Dogmaticks by some jeering Verses. 1889 E. Hatch Infl. Greek Ideas upon Christian Church (1890) 123 The Dogmatics..were in possession of the field of educated thought. 1922 I. Andersen & G. F. Hill tr. A. B. Drachmann Atheism in Pagan Antiq. vi. 108 The famous philosopher Carneades..made a success by his searching negative criticism of the doctrines of the other philosophical schools (the Dogmatics). 1939 Philos. Rev. 48 483 The third objection of Aenesidemus against the dogmatics (Stoics), namely, that of assigning to orderly events causes (reasons) which exhibit no order. 1973 Jrnl. Philos. 6 Dec. 807 Sextus explicitly warns us that Carneades is saying all these things only in opposing the dogmatics. 2. A dogmatic person. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun] > person holding dogmatizer1600 dogmatic1650 dogmatist1654 ultra1823 doctrinaire1831 Doctrinarian1836 mad mullah1838 doctrinist1840 ultraist1842 stalwart1899 fundamentalist1913 pontificator1934 Islamicist1963 1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature xiii. §4 The fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass every where for truth. 1896 E. A. Vizetelly tr. E. Zola Rome xvi. 577 Oh! you little men of shallow or distorted brains, you politicians planning expedients, you dogmatics at bay, you authoritarians so obstinately clinging to the ancient dreams. 1954 G. Wint Brit. in Asia v. 195 But the co-operation was always uneasy: the Communists were dogmatics who had their plans. 3. = dogmatics n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > dogmatics dogmaticals1605 dogmatics1693 dogmatic1857 1857 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 335 The Reformation dogmatic rests on..the exclusive sufficiency of Scripture. 1894 E. K. Mitchell tr. Harnack Outl. Hist. Dogma i. 28 Dogmatic is a positive science which has to take its material from history. 1920 J. N. Farquhar Outl. Relig. Lit. India vi. 278 Jain apologetic, dogmatic, and philosophy were eagerly cultivated. 2006 S. Sydnor in M. G. Phillips Deconstructing Sport Hist. ix. 208 This new Christian dogmatic is not a reinvention of the Christian faith. B. adj. 1. Proceeding upon principles accepted a priori as true, instead of being founded upon experience or induction, as dogmatic philosophy, dogmatic medicine. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [adjective] > dogmatic dogmatic1615 dogmatical1728 dogmatory1838 the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [adjective] > other theories or doctrines empiric?a1425 empirical1569 dogmatical1596 dogmatic1615 Brunonian1781 Thomsonian1833 pneumatic1842 stœchiological1875 solidistic1876 biochemical1885 orificial1887 physiatric1897 naturopathic1901 orgonomic1949 bioethical1971 1615 W. Barclay Callirhoe Ep. Ded. A5 There is no dogmaticke Physician in Europe, which doth not allow the vse of Iron & Vitriol in the cures of many diseases. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Dogmatick Philosophy, is that which [1706 being grounded upon sound Principles] positively assures a thing, and is opposed to Sceptic. 1743 A. Cowper Progress Physic (ed. 2) 11 Being a Master of Experience as well as of Analogy and Reason, and withal vers'd in pure Philosophy, [Hippocrates] first made Physic rational, and laid the Foundation of the Dogmatic Medicine which has since obtain'd. 1789 T. Holcroft tr. M. Jordan Let. in Posthumous. Wks. Frederic II IX. 109 Nor is this the first vexation which the spirit of doubt has occasioned me. Had I taken a dose of dogmatic philosophy, I should have immediately been positive. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Dogmatic sect (Med.), an ancient sect of physicians, at the head of which is placed Hippocrates. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic x. 330 The foundations of all philosophy, whether dogmatic, critical, or sceptical. 1910 R. D. Hicks Stoic & Epicurean 376 Ænesidemus undertook to arrange the whole material at the disposal of the Sceptic in his contention against the dogmatic position under ten heads or tropes. 1953 Isis 44 213 The dogmatic school was rivalled by the new empirical sect that banished the search for hidden causes and referred the physician to experience. 1972 A. Bowness Mod. European Art ii. 37 His procedure is always empirical, not dogmatic—Cézanne is not following a set of rules, but trying, with every new picture, to record his sensations before nature. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Nov. 42/4 The style of philosophy to which Kant self-consciously opposed his critique he called dogmatic philosophy, meaning that it took the supposed deliverances of reason at their face value, without asking how they were grounded in the structure of human thought and experience. 2. Of, relating to, or of the nature of dogma or dogmas; characterized by or consisting of dogma; doctrinal. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > [adjective] doctrinal1570 dogmatical1580 dogmatic1624 opinionativea1638 society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > [adjective] doctrinal1570 dogmatical1580 dogmatic1624 1624 J. Vicars tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm iv. 42 Dogmaticke dunghils, Popes to make haue power. 1669 T. Gale (title) A true idea of Jansenisme, both historick and dogmatick. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dogmatical or Dogmatick, relating to a Dogma, instructive. a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. xiv. 134 Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 28 The rest of his compositions are versified treatises of dogmatic theology. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii. 49 A..Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. v. 350 No inclination to substitute dogmatic Protestantism for dogmatic Catholicism. 1914 R. A. Nicholson Mystics of Islam 27 The Sūfīs are not a sect, they have no dogmatic system. 1951 H. H. Rowley Old Test. & Mod. Study xi. 312 The distinction which he drew between biblical and dogmatic theology has been accepted as axiomatic. 2003 J. Haldane Intelligent Person's Guide to Relig. i. 22 Another traditional and dogmatic religion is Islam, itself with more than a billion adherents. 3. Concerned with propounding opinions; didactic. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [adjective] instructivea1492 preceptivea1525 instructing1561 documentalc1575 dogmatical1580 doctrinablea1586 doctrinal1597 didactical1603 didascalic1609 tutorly1611 schooling1614 indoctrinating1642 disciplinable1644 docenta1645 institutionary1646 protreptic1658 protreptical1662 dogmatic1678 educating1699 didactive1723 educativea1750 tuitive1776 educatory1792 didactic1799 instructional1801 tuitionary1816 instructionary1824 didascalara1846 teaching1853 tuitional1861 documentary1873 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV Pref. To render our Discourse the lesse offensive, we have cast it into a thetic and dogmatic method, rather than agonistic and polemic. 1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xiv. 84 Such an one has no Talent for discovering and humouring the Boy's Genius; but teaches him by some dogmatic Method. 1779 E. Gibbon Vindic. Passages Hist. Decline & Fall Rom. Empire 110 He may learn from Jerom the difference of the gymnastic and dogmatic styles. 1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 12 Dec. 752/3 Let us add, nevertheless, a single illustration of the absurd results of a carping and dogmatic style of criticism. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 5 He is no longer interrogative but dogmatic. 1908 E. Channing Hist. U.S. (1913) II. i. 26 The Introduction is written in a dogmatic style and reflects the author's theory of the inherent wickedness of colonists. 1975 H. H. Quint & M. Cantor Men, Women, & Issues Amer. Hist. II. ii. 26 His crisp and dogmatic style of teaching appealed to students. 4. †a. Of assured opinion, convinced. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] > persuaded, convinced surea1400 probate?1511 strong1526 satisfied1533 persuaded1538 convict1558 dogmatic1678 well-wrought1684 convinced1685 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 434 From sundry other places of his writings, it sufficiently appears, that he [sc. Cicero] was a Dogmatick and Hearty Theist. b. Of a person, or his or her writing, speech, etc.: that asserts or imposes dogmas or opinions in an authoritative, imperious, or arrogant manner; inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective] high?1535 Arctic1593 magistral1596 forward1608 confident1611 magisterial1635 pragmatic1638 high-flown1640 affirmative1650 thetical1653 positive1658 pragmatical1660 dogmatical1662 dogmatic1681 unargumentative1722 ultra1820 doctrinaire1834 cocksure1842 doctrinary1846 unevidential1853 Doctrinarian1878 pontificating1922 fundamentalist1928 hardcore1951 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Dogmatic, stiff in opinion. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 253. ¶7 Those Criticks who write in a positive Dogmatick Way. 1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. III. 73 He wrote against dogmas with a spirit perfectly dogmatic. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 306 Not by dogmatic delivery of truths, but by scientific training in the method of enquiry. 1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters viii. 200 One is afraid of being dogmatic about it, and of being dogmatically wrong. 1916 W. Owen Let. 13 July (1967) 399 His dogmatic, pig-headed, preachifying, self-sufficient manners and domineering tone. 1937 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 18 Jan. 5/2 He is not dogmatic or dictatorial in pre-editing copy. 1955 J. K. Galbraith Great Crash x. 155 When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. 1998 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Oct. 5 He was completely dogmatic and opinionated. Derivatives dogˈmaticism n. dogmatic quality. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun] dogmatism1603 pragmaticalness1626 positivenessa1649 magisteriousness1650 magisterialness1651 dogmaticalness1663 dogmaticality1705 cock-surety1819 ultraism1821 pontificating1825 doctrinairism1836 absolutism1854 dogmaticism1856 doctrinaritya1869 doctrinism1872 doctrinarianism1877 cocksureness1878 cocksureism1889 1856 J. H. Seelye tr. A. Schwegler Hist. Philos. in Epitome xix. iii. 151 The later Academicians fell back to an eclectic dogmaticism. 1880 A. M. Fairbairn Stud. Life Christ (1881) ix. 156 The dogmaticism he subtly concealed. 1940 Musical Times 81 452/2 The general style is dogmatic, not with the dogmaticism of the don, but with the dogmaticism of the undergraduate. 2000 Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. The resonance of mystery, sometimes forgotten by biblical or church dogmaticism. 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