DOGMATIC

PRONUNCIATION: (dog-MA-tik)

MEANING: adjective: Expressing beliefs or opinions forcefully or positively as if they were true.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dogma (tenet), from Greek dogma (opinion), from dokein (to seem good, think). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dek- (to take, accept), which also gave us dignity, discipline, doctor, decorate, docile, deign, condign, doxy, heterodox, and philodox. Earliest documented use: 1605.
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DOGMATTIC - the place to store old, outdated authoritarian ideas

DOHMATIC - the verbal behavior of Bart Simpson

DOG MA TICK - the reason Fido is persistently infested by disease-carrying insects