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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.