dogma
noun
an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church.
dogmata
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pluralof dogma.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Father Eustace also dealt forth with well-meant kindness those apophthegms and dogmata of consolation, which friendship almost always offers to grief, though they are uniformly offered in vain.
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
Let us, then, without farther notice of the dogmata of the schools of art, follow forth those conclusions to which we are led by observance of the laws of nature.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
What fear is there that thy dogmata, or philosophical resolutions III.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Further, Schwenkfeld supplied him with the germs of a transcendental exegesis, whereby the Christian Scriptures and the dogmata of Lutheran orthodoxy were opened up in harmony with his new-found views.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
So much for the dogmata of my friend Lismahago, whom I describe the more circumstantially, as I firmly believe he will set up his rest in Monmouthshire.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
