dogma en · NOUN
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Etymology
From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”). Treated in the 17th and 18th century as Greek, with plural dogmata. Compare decent.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
If he has a dogma, i.e. a scientifico-philosophical theory, then he is not any sort of Skeptic, not even an urbane Skeptic.
2015, Tad Brennan, Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empiricus:
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(countable, uncountable) A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
Holonyms: belief system, cosmology
In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ex cathedra to make them part of the official faith.
Other foreign terms have become so thoroughly Anglicised as to adopt English plurals, and it is sometimes difficult to decide whether the English or the original foreign form is the more correct. None but a pedant would speak of ‘the chori of an opera,’ ‘the croci in a garden,’ or ‘the dogmata of the church;’ […]
[a. 1881, William B[allantyne] Hodgson, “Noun”, in Errors in the Use of English, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1881, part II (Accidence), page 70:Near-synonym: creed
The man who thinks that his religion is the sum-total of the religious dogmas he believes in, who thinks that to live in harmony with the allhood of things it requires only that one subscribe to certain prescribed religious dogmas, in whose mind the means of salvation is simply frequency and fervency of prayer, assiduity and fidelity of attendance on worship, — in the case of that man his so-called religion is just as apt as not to become an actual aid to immorality, for it is not religion at all, but purblind, self-righteous Pharisaism.
1909, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, Charles Alexander Nelson, Educational Review - Volume 37, page 383:According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dogmas | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| dogmata | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
dogmalike · dogmatics · dogmatize · dogmatic theology · dogmatism · dogmatic · dogmatical · dogmatist · antidogma · central dogma
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Translations (116)
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dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · ro dogmă (doctrine) · vi giáo điều (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · uk до́гма (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · sk dogma (doctrine) · lt dogma (doctrine) · el δόγμα (doctrine) · bg до́гма (doctrine) · ja 教条 (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · lt dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · ko 교의 (doctrine) · gl dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · fr dogme (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · nl leerstelling (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · pl dogmat (doctrine) · it dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · nl leerstuk (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · es dogma (doctrine) · nn dogme (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · bg до́гма (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · hu hittétel (doctrine) · lo ລັດທິ (doctrine) · pl doktryna (doctrine) · be до́гма (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · eo dogmo (doctrine) · sh до̏гма (doctrine) · nn læresetning (doctrine) · he דּוֹגְמָה (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · ru доктри́на (doctrine) · lv dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · ca dogma (doctrine) · uk до́гма (doctrine) · uk доктри́на (doctrine) · ru вероуче́ние (doctrine) · lv dogma (doctrine) · lt doktrina (doctrine) · fi dogmi (doctrine) · hi हठधर्म (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · mk догма (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · nb læresetning (doctrine) · nl geloofspunt (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · da dogme (doctrine) · ga dogma (doctrine) · nb dogme (doctrine) · gv bun-chredjue (doctrine) · it dottrina (doctrine) · ko 교리 (doctrine) · ja 教理 (doctrine) · da dogme (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · sl doktrina (doctrine) · ko 교조 (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · et dogma (doctrine) · cmn 教條 /教条 (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · grc δόγμα (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · sh до̏гма (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · nrf dogme (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · hy դոգմա (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · pl dogmat (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · et õpetus (doctrine) · nl dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · bg доктри́на (doctrine) · sh dȍgma (doctrine) · sh dȍgma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · ja 定説 (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · cs dogma (doctrine) · pt dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · sv dogm (doctrine) · hu dogma (doctrine) · el δόγμα (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · my ဝါဒ (doctrine) · ar عَقِيدَة (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · lv doktrīna (doctrine) · sh доктри́на (doctrine) · cmn 教理 (doctrine) · ro dogmă (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · hy դավանանք (doctrine) · io dogmato (doctrine) · sv dogm (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · fi doktriini (doctrine) · ru до́гма (doctrine) · nl dogmatiek (doctrine) · km លទ្ធិ (doctrine) · nn dogme (doctrine) · et doktriin (doctrine) · th ลัทธิ (doctrine) · hy դոգմա (doctrine) · nn læresetning (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · sh doktrína (doctrine) · nb dogme (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · nb læresetning (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · cmn 定論 /定论 (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · sl dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion) · ja 教義 (doctrine) · grc δόγμα (doctrine) · cmn 信條 /信条 (doctrine) · be дактры́на (doctrine)