dogmaticaladj.n.

1580 W. Fulke Retentiue 18 Bristow diuideth miracles into dogmaticall and personall.

1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Dogmaticall, that giueth instructions.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 203 To make a true difference betweene problematicall, and dogmaticall points.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 327 These Dogmatical books contain in them Doctrines.

1704 S. Grascome Certamen Religiosum 20 Such high Dogmatical Points, as the Trinity, Christ's Divinity, the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacraments and such like.

1779 A. MacBean Dict. Bible at Scripture If we reduce the prophetical books to the historical class,..there can be no more than two classes, namely historical and dogmatical.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 99 The intolerant domination of a dogmatical system.

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. i. 11 We..look upon the judgment in its dogmatical aspect.

1914 G. V. Jourdan Movement towards Catholic Reform Early XVI Cent. vii. 176 There are few dogmatical statements in Colet's Lectures.

1966 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 85 382 Articles on general subjects, such as..the nature of biblical and dogmatical theology, are followed by essays on the NT and myth, [etc.].

2007 Jrnl. Austral. Catholic Hist. Soc. (Nexis) 28 19 The dogma of the Immaculate Conception..was about to be issued by Pius IX... A commission had been appointed to make the necessary preparations for the dogmatical decision.

1596 J. Harington New Disc. Metamorph. Ajax 89 I will not..dilate of the Empiricall physicke, or the dogmaticall and the methodicall.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. vii. 26 The dogmatical Physitians [L. medicis dogmaticis]..are wont to refer to those qualities.

1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 215 Oure Dogmatical Methodists can now vouchsafe to use such Medicaments as were startled at before.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In common Use, a Dogmatical Philosopher is such a one as asserts Things positively; in Opposition to a Sceptic, who doubts of every Thing. And a Dogmatical Physician, he, who, on the Principles of the School Philosophy, rejects all Medicinal Virtues not reducible to manifest Qualities.

1778 J. G. Zimmermann Treat. Experience in Physic II. 38 In order to succeed in medicine, we ought to combine the dogmatical, with the historical part of physic, and the application of facts, with the certain knowledge of them.

1800 Edinb. Pract. Physic & Surg. 2 Hippocrates..first made physic rational and laid the foundation of the dogmatical medicine, which has ever since obtained.

1821 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 17 281 The following passage will shew the author's estimate of the comparative merits of the dogmatical and empirical methods of cultivating medicine.

1857 R. Dunglison Gen. Therapeutics & Materia Med (ed. 6) i. 35 He [sc. Hippocrates] has been commonly regarded as the father of the rational or dogmatical system of medicine as it was then called.

1920 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1918 29 46 Medicine has been divided into three periods or ages. First, the mythological; second, the dogmatical or empirical; third, the rational.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. i. §12 How uncertain the most dogmatical of them all were.

1703 F. Bugg News from Pensilvania Their own Hypocritical, Dogmatical and Lunatick Party.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 177. ⁋3 I became decisive and dogmatical, impatient of contradiction.

1833 J. Constable Let. 11 Jan. (1966) IV. 391 His dogmatical manner has force.

a1852 D. Webster Wks. (1877) VI. 148 Nothing is more apt to be positive and dogmatical than ignorance.

1931 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 157 236/2 Unhampered by dogmatical concepts of prison treatment.

1946 Church Hist. 15 242 In cases of dubious readings of the text,..Dr. Panofsky is not dogmatical.

2000 National Rev. (Nexis) 21 Feb. The Rembrandt Research Project..is redoubted and loathed precisely because of its dogmatical rulings on what is real and what is not real in the Rembrandt corpus.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Nn2 They hasted to their Theories and Dogmaticals . View more context for this quotation

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor i. vi. 105 Through diuers descents came one Haidar,..and taught his ancestors new dogmaticalls.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. ii. 372 That Edition of Anselm's Dogmaticals.

1863 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (ed. 2) 182 The Gnostics wur a rude and barbarous peoples, that cudn't debate their own dogmaticals.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 26 Empericalls are: Earth~worms provided several wayes. Dogmaticalls: Senna powder, 2 drams.

1705 D. Defoe Consolidator 25 The yet farther Extravagancies which naturally attend the Mischief of Wit, are beau-ism, Dogmaticality, Whimsification, Impudensity, and various kinds of Fopperosities.

1793 in L. Twining Country Clergym. 18th C. (1882) 175 Too much dogmaticality, too overbearing a manner.

1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air I. xii. 266 Squire Courtfield of Courtfield Manor,..whose ante-progress [sic] dogmaticality..rendered him..the embodied representative of John Bull.