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Dogmatical   Listen
adjective
dogmatical, dogmatic  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
2.
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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"Dogmatical" Quotes from Famous Books



... a great officer of the army, who will sit for some time with a supercilious and impatient silence, full of anger and contempt for those who are talking; at length of a sudden demand audience, decide the matter in a short dogmatical way; then withdraw within himself again, and vouchsafe to talk no more, until his spirits circulate again ...
— A Book of English Prose - Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools • Percy Lubbock
... desire to remove them?" asked Sir Norman, who felt dubious, and disappointed, and inclined to be dogmatical. ...
— The Midnight Queen • May Agnes Fleming
... not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat everyone of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information or pleasure. For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present ...
— Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin
... coffee with a dogmatical air, as though his arguments were unanswerable, and shortly took his leave, after making us promise to breakfast with him the next day, and go and draw the money which ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes


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