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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dogma \Dog"ma\, n.; pl E. {Dogmas}, L. {Dogmata}. [L. dogma, Gr ?, pl ?, fr ? to think, seem, appear; akin to L. decet it is becoming. Cf {Decent}.] 1. That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. -- Whewell 2. A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet. 3. A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum. Syn: tenet; opinion; proposition; doctrine. Usage: -- {Dogma}, {Tenet}. A tenet is that which is maintained as true with great firmness; as the tenets of our holy religion. A dogma is that which is laid down with authority as indubitably true, especially a religious doctrine; as the dogmas of the church. A tenet rests on its own intrinsic merits or demerits; a dogma rests on authority regarded as competent to decide and determine. Dogma has in our language acquired, to some extent, a repulsive sense from its carrying with it the idea of undue authority or assumption. This is more fully the case with its derivatives dogmatical and dogmatism. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dogma n 1: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof [syn: {belief}, {tenet}] 2: a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative; "he believed all the Marxist dogma"
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