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Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.

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  1. a. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
  2. a. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.
  3. adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
  4. 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. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics. Syn. -- Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.
  5. s characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles