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dogmatical, dogmatic adj.

Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.

Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. "Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way." "(They) are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient."

Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

Synonyms: Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston

... charmed circle of wits who pretended not to know of his existence. "One of these authors," says another writer, "(the fellow that was pilloried, I have forgotten his name), is indeed so grave, sententious, dogmatical a rogue that ...

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... neighboring Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, and others of the vicinity, that Gov. Mifflin was studying out a theory to set his hills and fields on fire, and burn out the obnoxious black rock and boulders. But, despite the jibes and jokes of his dogmatical friends, the old governor stuck to his experiments, and the result produced, as most generally it does through perseverance and practice, a new and useful ...

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... writer of fiction. He creates nothing—he only copies. His characters are portraits—servilely accurate; whatever is at all ideal is not original. The Testimony to the Truth is a better book than any tale he can write will ever be. Am I too dogmatical in saying this? ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

... however, a man breaks away from any one of these fundamental principles of belief, then of him it is said that he has gone out of the general body of Israel and he denies the root-truths of Judaism.' This formulation of a dogmatic test was never confirmed by any body of Rabbis. No Jew was ever excommunicated for declaring his dissent from these articles. No Jew was ever called upon formally to express his assent to them. But, as Professor ...

— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

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