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Definition of Dogmatical
1. Adjective. Characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles.
Definition of Dogmatical
1. Adjective. (alternative form of dogmatic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dogmatical
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Dogmatical
1. 1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorised doctrine or tenet. 2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. "Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way." (Spectator) "[They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient." (Glanvill) Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics. Synonym: Magisterial, arrogant. See Magisterial. Origin: L. Dogmaticus, Gr, fr., cf. F. Dogmatique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogmatical
Literary usage of Dogmatical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improvement of the Mind by Isaac Watts, Stephen Norris Fellows (1885)
"X. Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your
... A dogmatical spirit has many inconveniences attending it: as 1. ..."
2. Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the by Charles John Smith (1871)
"As dogmatical belongs to matters of belief and opinion, it is only connected with
beings capable of entertaining these ; while peremptory, expressing, ..."
3. A General Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures: In a Series of by Joseph Dixon (1853)
"OF THE dogmatical LAWS OF INTERPRETATION. WE must refer now, for the present,
briefly, to the dogmatical laws of interpretation. These laws are deduced from ..."
4. Boston Unitarianism, 1820-1850: Study of the Life and Work of Nathaniel by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1890)
"THE dogmatical POSITION. THIS is the place to give some account of the dogmatical
and ecclesiastical relations of the Unitarians I am describing. ..."
5. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"... desiring neither to adrf to, nor diminish, the. comely order which they had
established in the public service ; nor to be dogmatical where they had been ..."
6. Logic by Immanuel Kant (1819)
"Sceptical, dogmatical, and Critical Way of Thinking or Method of Philosophising.
J&y- .\pothesis. , . r .THE doctrine of th^.knowledge of the probabilities ..."
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