dixit

How to use dixit in a sentence

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

  Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies

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

  Handbook of Home Rule (1887) | W. E. Gladstone et al.

• Quo facto, liberum qusit rei iudicium a se ei relinqui dixit.

  Beowulf | R. W. Chambers

• Quo sono recreatus Wermundus, filii ferrum audire se dixit, rogatque, cui potissimum parti ictum inflixerit.

  Beowulf | R. W. Chambers

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

  Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) | John Dryden