ipse dixit

[ ip-se dik-sit; English ip-see dik-sit ]

noun

1. an assertion without proof.

ipse dixit

/ ˈɪpseɪ ˈdɪksɪt /

noun

1. an arbitrary and unsupported assertion

Word History and Origins

Origin of ipse dixit¹

< Latin: he himself said it

Word History and Origins

Origin of ipse dixit¹

C16, literally: he himself said it

Example Sentences

It should have been—so we were to believe on his ipse dixit—contemporaneous with the Fall.

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A man who says now what he denied six years ago cannot expect to be believed on his ipse dixit.

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Or why should there be any ipse dixit in our poetry, any more than there is in our philosophy?

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I want to say that, in the first place, I have made no charge of this sort upon my ipse dixit.

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Swedenborg's ipse dixit ought to convince the most incredulous; for he speaks "from what has been heard and seen."

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