All 4 Uses of
dogmatic
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention.†
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- And this mode, which I at first put on with some violence to natural inclination, became at length so easy, and so habitual to me, that perhaps for these fifty years past no one has ever heard a dogmatical expression escape me.†
- Among the rest, I became one of his constant hearers, his sermons pleasing me, as they had little of the dogmatical kind, but inculcated strongly the practice of virtue, or what in the religious stile are called good works.†
- or of observations offer'd as conjectures, and not delivered dogmatically, therefore not laying me under any obligation to defend them;†
Definitions:
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(1)
(dogmatic) prone to stating opinions as absolute truth
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, dogmatic is also used as the adjective form of dogma to indicate that something is related to or expresses standard beliefs that shouldn't be questioned -- especially religious beliefs.