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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a dogmatic manner; positively; in a magisterial or authoritative manner; arrogantly.
  • In the Kantian philosophy, by a dogmatic method. See dogmatic, a., 3.

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  • adverb In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

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  • adverb In a dogmatic manner

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  • adverb in a narrow-minded dogmatic manner

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Examples

  • Just because I do not hold my opinions dogmatically is no reason to think I do not really hold them, or that they are unjustified.

    ID Research, Look to the Example 2005

  • Just because I do not hold my opinions dogmatically is no reason to think I do not really hold them, or that they are unjustified.

    ID Research, Look to the Example 2005

  • In instructing both groups the subjects should be taught dogmatically, that is, authoritatively, appealing rather to the children's faith than to their reasoning powers.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Among these a theological character is unmistakeable, the separate divinities having their attributes and titles dogmatically fixed.

    Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861

  • Had we endeavoured to prove these analogies dogmatically, that is, from conceptions; that is to say, had we employed this method in attempting to show that everything which exists, exists only in that which is permanent -- that every thing or event presupposes the existence of something in a preceding state, upon which it follows in conformity with a rule -- lastly, that in the manifold, which is coexistent, the states coexist in connection with each other according to a rule, all our labour would have been utterly in vain.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • "But you need such things," dogmatically; "a man can't live out of the world and not -- degenerate."

    Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906

  • Non-evolutionists are described with the non-referenced, non-neutral term "dogmatically"

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DouglasA 2010

  • Non-evolutionists are described with the non-referenced, non-neutral term "dogmatically"

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Cameronled 2010

  • Non-evolutionists are described with the non-referenced, non-neutral term "dogmatically"

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DanielPulido 2010

  • Non-evolutionists are described with the non-referenced, non-neutral term "dogmatically"

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Progunprolife 2010

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