Definitions for Dogma
ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg-; -mə tədog·ma

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dogma, tenetnoun

   a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

2. dogmanoun

   a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

   "he believed all the Marxist dogma"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dogmanoun

   An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.

   The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as dogma

2. dogmanoun

   A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.

   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.

3. Etymology: From dogma, from δόγμα, from δοκέω (more at decent). Treated in the 17c. -18c. as Greek, with plural dogmata.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DOGMAnoun

   Established principle; settled notion.

   Etymology: Latin.

   Our poet was a stoick philosopher, and all his moral sentences are drawn from the dogmas of that sect. Dryden.

   Dogma is that determination which consists in, and has a relation to, some casuistical point of doctrine, or some doctrinal part of the Christian faith. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

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1. DOGMA

   DOGMA, short for Developing Ontology-Grounded Methods and Applications, is the name of research project in progress at Vrije Universiteit Brussel's STARLab, Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory. It is an internally funded project, concerned with the more general aspects of extracting, storing, representing and browsing information.

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1. dogma

   Dogma is a principle, set of principles, or a statement of belief that is established and accepted by an authority, institution, or organization, such as a religion or a political party. These beliefs are often considered to be unquestionably true by the followers or members of that particular group.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dogmanoun

   that which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine

2. Dogmanoun

   a formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet

3. Dogmanoun

   a doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum

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1. Dogma

   Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. It serves as part of the primary basis of an ideology or belief system, and it cannot be changed or discarded without affecting the very system's paradigm, or the ideology itself. They can refer to acceptable opinions of philosophers or philosophical schools, public decrees, religion, or issued decisions of political authorities. The term derives from Greek δόγμα "that which seems to one, opinion or belief" and that from δοκέω, "to think, to suppose, to imagine". Dogma came to signify laws or ordinances adjudged and imposed upon others by the First Century. The plural is either dogmas or dogmata, from Greek δόγματα. The term "dogmatics" is used as a synonym for systematic theology, as in Karl Barth's defining textbook of neo-orthodoxy, the 14-volume Church Dogmatics.

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1. Dogma

   dog′ma, n. a settled opinion: a principle or tenet: a doctrine laid down with authority.—adjs. Dogmat′ic, -al, pertaining to a dogma: asserting a thing as if it were a dogma: asserting positively: overbearing.—adv. Dogmat′ically.—n. Dogmat′ics (theol.), the statement of Christian doctrines, systematic theology.—v.i. Dog′matise, to state one's opinion dogmatically or arrogantly.—ns. Dog′matiser; Dog′matism, dogmatic or positive assertion of opinion; Dog′matist, one who makes positive assertions; Dogmatol′ogy, the science of dogma.—adj. Dog′matory. [Gr., 'an opinion,' from dokein, to think, allied to L. decet.]

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1. dogma

   1. A hard substance which forms in a soft brain; a coprolitic idea; a lie imperiously reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe they believe what some one else believes. 2. A paying thought or doctrine. 3. A recession into the Divine or Imperial--hence, the father of graft.

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   The numerical value of Dogma in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Dogma in a Sentence

1. Ben Carson:

   I'm a person who has a deep and abiding faith and relationship with God, but I'm not really into a lot of religious dogma and rituals -- 'you can't do that, and you can't do this.' I don't believe in that. I believe you have to have a deep and abiding faith in God.

2. Samuel Butler:

   It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.

3. Ibrahim Freihat:

   Daesh has a dogma, it can attack all parties at the same time, and one cannot expect to see logic in what it does.

4. Richard Bernstein:

   The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity training’ and ‘respect for difference.

5. Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian":

   I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Dogma
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dogma
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Dogma
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Dogma
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Dogma
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Dogma
9. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=Dogma