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dogmatical

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1. dogmatical - Adjective

2. dogmatical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence. Isaac Watts

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical. Jean de La Bruyère

Throughout this volume, we have felt considerable inconvenience, from the dogmatical classification of plants, and have all along been floundering between species and variety, which certainly under culture soften into each other. Patrick Matthew

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