dogmata

Greek plural of dogma. dogmatic (dog-mat'ik), a. and n. [= F. dog matique Sp. dogmático = Pg. It. dog matico (cf. D. G. dogmatisch = Dan. Sw. dogmatisk ), Lipsius therefore is wrecked on the antinomy between dogmatic knowledge and spiritual incapacity of knowing. Westminster Rev. , CXXVI. 472. The deliverances of the Roman Catholic Church upon the subject are dogmatic, and based upon the a umption or belief that it cannot err, and must be obeyed, whether reasons are given or not. N. A. Rev., CXLIII. 356. 2. A erting, or disposed to make positive a ertions of, opinion, doctrine, or fact without presenting argument or evidence, or in an overbearing and arrogant manner. We grow more and more impatient of generalisations and idealisations, and more and more intolerant of dog matic a umptions, the longer we study them. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 371. 3. In the Kantian philosophy, relating to that kind of metaphysics which deduces its doctrines syllogistically, or from the analysis of conceptions, setting out with those which seem perfectly clear and distinct: opposed to critical. Dogmatic Christianity. See Christianity, 1 (b). =Syn. 2. Authoritative, Magisterial, Dogmatic, etc. (see mag is terial ); Sure, Certain, Confident, etc. (see confident ); oracular, categorical. II. n. [F. dogmatique = Sp. dogmático = G. dogmatik = Dan. Sw. dogmatik .] 1. Same as dogmatics . The po ibility and the need of such a science as dog matic rest upon the specific nature of Christianity as the perfect form of a divinely given religion. Encyc . Brit ., VII. 334. 2. A dogmatist. dogmatical (dog-mat'i-kal), a. and n. I. a. Given to or characterized by dogmatism; dog dogmatical econ'my. But when that choir got up to sing I couldn't catch a word; They sung the most dog - gondest thing A body ever heard. Will Car let on, Farm Ballads, p. 80. matic. One of these authors is.. so grave, sententious, dog matical a rogue, that there is no enduring him. Swift . I. n. pl. Same as dogmatics. It had not been po ible for wits so subtile as have man 1721 they hasted their theories and dogma ticals, and were imperious and scornful toward particulars. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 214. dogmatically (dog-mat'i-kal-i), adv . 1. In a dogmatic manner; positively; in a magisterial or authoritative manner; arrogantly.-2. In the Kantian philosophy , by a dogmatic method. See dogmatic , a ., 3.