dog·mat·ic dog·mat·ic·al a.
1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.
Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. -- Spectator.
[They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. -- Glanvill.
Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.
Syn: -- Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.
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