ipse dixit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ipse dixit
< Latin: he himself said it
Example Sentences
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Today’s decision reveals California’s considerable wingspan: That case’s ipse dixit now apparently governs all APA challenges to grant-funding determinations that the government asks us to address in the context of an emergency stay application.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
I was afraid he might push out, because he was, in a way a human dynamo and, at the time of his supremacy, might have controlled 150,000 votes in Indiana by his "ipse dixit!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Let us have something more than the ipse dixit of the Society.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
Page 134—lawer’s amended to lawyer’s—"... on a word, or a lawyer’s ipse dixit."
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
St. Paul to you may be infallible, But Science is so unaccommodating, If not irreverent, she'll not accept His ipse dixit as an axiom.
From The Woman Who Dared by Epes Sargent
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