| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dog·ma |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  dôg m , d g- |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. dog·mas or dog·ma·ta (-m-t)
1. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church. 2. An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true. See synonyms at doctrine. 3. A principle or belief or a group of them: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” (Abraham Lincoln). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin, from Greek, opinion, belief, from dokein, to seem, think. See dek- in Appendix I.
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