Dogma (Tall Dwarfs album)
WordNet
noun
(1) A doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
"He believed all the Marxist dogma"
(2) A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
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Etymology
From , from , from (more at ). Treated in the 17c. -18c. as Greek, with plural .
Noun
- An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
- The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as dogma
- A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
- In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ex cathedra to make them part of the official faith.