dogmatic

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dogmatic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), n.
     One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general
     principles; -- opposed to the Empiric. dogmatic

  dogmatic \dog*mat"ic\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]k), dogmatical
  \dog*mat`ic*al\ (d[o^]g*m[a^]t"[i^]*kal), a. [L. dogmaticus, Gr.
     dogmatiko`s, fr. do`gma: cf. F. dogmatique.]
     1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized
        doctrine or tenet.
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     2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively;
        positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative;
        overbearing.
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              Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. --
                                                    Spectator.
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              [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they
              were omniscient.                      -- Glanvill.
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     Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.
  
     Syn: Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.
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dogmatic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dogmatic
      adj 1: characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable
             principles [syn: dogmatic, dogmatical]
      2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code
         of beliefs accepted as authoritative
      3: relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"

dogmatic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "dogmatic":
     Sabbatarian, a priori, antiblack, arbitrary, arrogant, assertive,
     assured, authoritarian, authoritative, balking, balky, believing,
     biased, bigoted, blind, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded,
     canonical, case-hardened, categorical, certain, chauvinistic,
     colored, conceited, confessional, confident, convinced, creedal,
     creedbound, deaf, deducible, derivable, devout, dictatorial,
     doctrinaire, doctrinal, doctrinarian, dogged, dogmatizing,
     domineering, doubtless, emphatic, evangelical, faithful, fanatic,
     fideistic, fundamentalist, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound,
     hyperorthodox, imperious, impressed with, influenced, insistent,
     interested, intolerant, jaundiced, know-nothing, literalist,
     literalistic, magisterial, mulish, nonobjective, obdurate,
     obstinate, one-sided, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned,
     oracular, overbearing, overzealous, partial, partisan, peremptory,
     persevering, persuaded, pertinacious, pietistic, pigheaded, pious,
     pistic, pontifical, positive, positivistic, precisianist,
     precisianistic, prejudiced, prepossessed, pronunciative, purist,
     puristic, puritanical, pushy, racist, reasoned, restive, satisfied,
     secure, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, self-willed, set, sexist,
     sold on, staunch, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strict, strong-willed,
     strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, superpatriotic, sure,
     swayed, tenacious, twisted, ultranationalist, uncooperative,
     under the impression, undetached, undispassionate, undoubtful,
     undoubting, unpersuadable, unregenerate, warped, willful,
     xenophobic