Word Meanings - DOGMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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. -- 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.
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- CREAM-FACED
White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - DOGMATIC
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric. - TEACHER
1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. - OPINIONATOR
An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South. - CREDIBLY
In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event. - CREEP
to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately - TEACHABLENESS
Willingness to be taught. - CRESYLIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc. Cresylic acid. See Cresol. - CREATURELY
Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne. - CREATIONAL
Of or pertaining to creation. - CREMOR
Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum. - CRENELATION
The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. - CREATION
1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had - CREDIT FONCIER
A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out - CREATIONISM
The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism. - PRECEPTIAL
Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak. - CREAK
To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson. - CRETONNE
1. A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and welt of flax. 2. A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft. 3. A kind of chintz with a glossy surface. - UNCREATED
1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - INCREPATION
A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - INCREMABLE
Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne. - DECRESCENDO
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign. - CONCRETIVELY
In a concrete manner. - PANCREATIN
One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic - INCREDULOUSLY
In an incredulous manner; with incredulity. - INCREDIBLENESS
Incredibility. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.