Dogma
(Greek). A religious doctrine formally stated. It now means a
statement resting on the ipse dixit of the speaker. Dogmatic
teaching used to mean the teaching of religious doctrines, but now
dogmatic means overbearing and dictatorial. (Greek dogma, gen. dogmatos, a matter of opinion; verb dokeo, to think, whence dogmatizo.)
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