Il.t 
dogmatical 
Same as dogmatics. 
It had not been possible for wits so subtile as have man- 
am-.l tin-He things li have ottered it to the world, tint Unit 
tht-y basted to their theories :iinl iln.,,iinticiil, and were 
imperious .li'i .scornful toward particulars. 
llacon, Advancement o( Learning, ii. 214. 
dogmatically (dog-mat'i-kal-i), adv. 1. In a 
dogmatic manner ; positively; in a magisterial 
or authoritative manner; arrogantly. 2. In 
the Kiiiilinii /iliilii.io/ilti/, by a dogmatic method. 
See doi/iiui/ir, il., 3. 
dogmaticalness (dog-raat'i-kal-ues), . The 
quality of being dogmatical ; positiveness. 
In this were ti> be considered the natures of scepticism, 
doffifutticalncml, enthusiasm, superstition, etc. 
/;/i. JJitrd, Warburton. 
dogmatician (ilog-ma-tish'an), n. [< dogmat- 
ic + -IH.] One who practises dogmatism; a 
maker or propounder of dogmas ; a dogmatist. 
[Rare.] 
Th traditions cif the duiimalifiann, or the imaginings 
of the " Christian cimseiouMi. . 
Jiibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 264. 
dogmatics (dog-mat'iks), n. [PI. of dogmatic: 
see -'<.] The science which treats of the ar- 
rangement and statement of religious doctrines, 
especially of the doctrines received in and 
taught by the Christian church ; doctrinal the- 
ology. Also dogmatic. 
The Avesta, then, is not a system of dogmatics, but a 
book of worship. J. F. Clarke, Ten lireat Religions, v. C. 
Dogmatics is a scientific unfolding of the doctrinal sys- 
tem of Christianity from the Bible and Christian conscious 
ness, and in harmony with true reason as enlightened by 
revelation. Schaf, Christ and Christianity, p. 4. 
I once studied theology, and was in my day well up in 
dogmatics. New f'ri)icfton lies., II. 257. 
dogmatisation, dogmatise, etc. See dogma- 
tization, etc. 
dogmatism (dog'ma-tizm), . [= P. dogma- 
tixuie, < ML. dogmatismus,<. Or. as if *<5o}'/m<T/i<Sf, 
< SoyfuiTi&iv, dogmatize: see dogmati:e.~\ 1. 
The charactorof beingdogmatic ; authoritative, 
positive, or arrogant assertion of doctrines or 
opinions. 
The self-importance of his demeanour and the dogma- 
tism of his conversation. Scott. 
Nothing is more commendable in a philosopher than 
the courage, in the face of the opposing dogmatisms of 
materialistic and metaphysical theories of the universe, 
to admit that there are some things which we do not know. 
Mind, XII. 594. 
2. In the Kantian philosophy, a dogmatic meth- 
od in metaphysics; an uncritical faith in the 
presumptions of reason. 
Our critique is not opposed to the dogmatical procedure 
of reason, as a science of pure knowledge (for this must 
always be dogmatical that is, derive its proof from sure 
principles, a priori), but to liw/uuitunnonly that is, to the 
presumption that it is possible to make any progress with 
pure philosophical knowledge, consisting of concepts, and 
guided by principles, such as the reason has long been in 
the habit of employing, without first enquiring in what 
way, and by what right, it has Iwcome possessed of them. 
Doytnatiifin is therefore a dogmatical procedure of pure 
reason, without a previous criticism of its own powers. 
Kant, Critique of Pure Keason, tr. by Max Muller. 
Do we explain experience as the product of the non-Ego, 
we have the system which may be called Dogmatism; do 
we explain the whole as springing from the Ego, we have 
Idealism. Adamstm, Fichte, p. 126. 
3. The doctriue of the sect of physicians known 
as Dogmatists. 
dogmatist (dog'ma-tist), n. [= P. dogmatiste 
= Sp. Pg. di><iinlinia,<. LL. dogmatistes,(QiT. Soy- 
/laTiorfK, one who maintains dogmas, < d6y/ta(T-), 
dogma: see dogma.] 1. One who is dogmatic 
or maintains a dogma or dogmas ; a magisterial 
teacher; one who asserts positively doctrines 
or opinions unsupported by argument or evi- 
dence. 
lie who is certain, or presumes to say he knows, is in 
that jmrticular, whether he is mistaken or in the right, a 
:li> : iinatit. Sha/tesbury, Misc. Reflections. 
The most unflinching sceptic of course believes in the 
objections to knocking his In-ud against a post as impli- 
citly as the most audacious i/...iiiinf .'*/. 
Lttlie Stephen, Eng. Thought, i. $ 57. 
2. [<;>.] One of a sect of ancient physicians 
founded by Hippocrates, and named in contra- 
distinction to Empirics and Methodists. They 
based tin ir practice on conclusions or opinions lira wn from 
eertai ii theoretical inferences which they considered might 
be logically defended or proved. 
dogmatizatipn (dog*ma-ti-za'shon), n. [< dog- 
matize + -(.] The act of dogmatizing; the 
act of drawing up or stating in a dogmatic form. 
Also spelled aogmaHaatio*. 
Tin- syllahns is part of that scries of acts to which tin- 
dogmataatumi ot i.s:,4aud 1870 also belong, and it bridges 
uver the interval between them. 
Gladstone, Harper's Weekly, March 20, 1S75. 
1721 
dogmatize (dog'ma-tiz), v. ; pret. and pp. dog- 
iii. i/i nl. ppr. i/.i./wi'i/i-iiii/. [= !'. ilii;/iniiti/<er = 
8p. g.(l<M/i>ti<ti:nr= It. dogmatism = G.dog- 
iiKlliain n == l);in. </(I./IH/I."' r< = S\v. iliiiiiuilli 
m i-ii. < 1. 1., ilin/iiiiiti-iiri', < Or. <5oj//<mC > , lay 
down as an opinion, < 66}pa(T-), an opinion, dog- 
ma: see dogma.'] I. intrans. To make dogmatic 
assertions; utter or write positive statements, 
but without adducing arguments or evidence 
in support of what is asserted. 
I question whether ever any man has produc'd more ex- 
periment* to establish his opinions without doyinatuinj. 
Evelyn, To Mr. Wuttun. 
\\ hose pious hope aspires to see the day 
When moral evidence shall quite decay, 
And damns Implicit faith, anil holy lies, 
Prompt to impose, and fond to dogmatise. 
Pope, The ihmciad, iv. 464. 
If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence 
and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which con- 
veys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the 
hearer. Emerson, Compensation. 
H. trans. 1. To assert or deliver as a dogma; 
make a dogma of. [Rare.] 
Then they would not endure persons that did dogmatize 
anything which might intrench upon their reputation or 
their Interest. 
JUT. Taylor, Liberty of Prophesying, xiv. 4. 
2. To treat dogmatically; make a subject of 
dogmatism: as, to dogmatize a political ques- 
tion. [Rare.] 
Without adducing one fact, without taking the trouble 
to perplex the question by one sophism, he placidly dog- 
matises away the interest of one half of the human race. 
Macaulay, Mill on Government. 
Also spelled dogmatise. 
doginatizer (dog'ma-ti-zer), n. One who dog- 
matizes ; a bold asserter ; a magisterial or au- 
thoritative teacher. Also spelled dogmafiser. 
An earnest disputer, or a peremptory dogmatizer. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 307. 
dogmatoryt (dog'ma-to-ri), a. [< dogma(t-) + 
-ory.] Dogmatical. E. D. 
dog-nail (do^'nal), n. A nail of large size hav- 
ing a projection on one side, used by carpenters 
and locksmiths. 
dog-on, interj. See dog-gone. 
dog-pan (dog'pan), n. A long, narrow wooden 
water-trough lined with lead or iron, used in 
grinding cutlery. 
dog-parsley (dog'pars'li), n. Same as fooVs- 
parsley ( which see, under parsley). 
dog-pi$ (dog'pig), n. A sucking pig. 
dog-poison (dog'poi'zn), n. Same as fooTs- 
parxlry (which see, under parsley). 
dog-power (dpg'pon'er), n. An apparatus in 
which the weight of a dog traveling in a drum 
or on an endless track is utilized as a motive 
power. 
dog-ray (dog'ra), n. The dogfish. Harrison. 
dogrose (dog'roz), . The Eosa canina, or wild 
brier, natural order Sonaeete. It is a common 
British plant, growing in thickets and hedges. 
The fruit is known as the hip. 
dog-salmon (dog'sarn'on), n. A salmon of the 
genus Ihicorhyiichus, as O. gorbuscha, the hump- 
backed salmon (so called in Alaska), or 0. keta. 
See salmon. 
dog's-bane, dogbane (dogz'-, dog'ban), . 1. 
The popular name of the plant Apocynum an- 
drosannijblium. The root is intensely bitter, and has 
been used in America as a substitute for ipecacuanha. 
See Apocynum. 
2. The Aconitum Cynoctonum. 
dog's-body (dogz'bod'i), n. A name given by 
seamen to a pease-pudding boiled in a cloth. 
dog's-chop (dogz'chop), . A species of flg- 
mnrigold, Mettcmbrianthemum caninum. 
dog's-ear (dogz'er), n. 1. The corner of a leaf 
in a book bent over like the ear of a dog by 
careless use. 2. Naut., the bight formed in 
the leech-rope of a topsail or course in reefing. 
dog's-ear (dogz'er), v. t. [< dog's-ear, .] To 
bend over in aog's-ears, as the leaves in a book. 
I ;nly Slattern Lounger, who had just sent it [a novel] 
home, had so soiled and dtuj's-ear'd, it, it wa'n't flt for a 
Christian to read. Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. 
A " register. "meagerly inscribed, led a terribly public 
life on the little bare desk, and got its pages dog't-eared 
before they were covered. 
//. James, Jr., The Bostoniaus, xxxv. 
dog's-fennel, dog-fennel (dogz'-,dog'fen'el),w. 
M ayweed : so called from its bad smell and from 
some resemblance of its leaf to that of fennel. 
dog's-grass (dogz'gras), . Same as dog-grast>. 
dog's-guts (dogz'guts), n. A fish of the family 
M/II.K/IIII tiila; Hitrjiodon iul rciis; same as 6m- 
Illllln. 
dog-shark (dog'shiirk), . A scyllioid shark, 
Set/Ilium caniculu. 
dog-tooth 
dogshore (dog'shor), . [< dog, 9 (i), + shore^.] 
In xlnii-liiiililinii, one of the snores or pieces of 
timber uscil ti> prevent a vessel from starting 
iluriug the removal of the keel-blocks prepara- 
tory to hiiincliing. 
dog-show (dog'sho), n. An exhibition of dogs : 
a oench-show. 
dog-sick (dog'sik), a. Very sick; nauseated. 
dogskin (dog'skin), n. and a. I. n. The skin of 
a dog, or the leather made from it : also applied 
to a kind of leather (sheepskin) not actually 
made of a dog's skin. It is somewhat thicker than 
the leather of which kid gloves are made, and I* used for 
gloves for men's wear, driving-gloves, etc. 
H. a. Made of the skin of a dog, or of the 
leather so called. 
dog-sleep (dog'slep), i. A light sleep like that 
of a dog, disturbed by the slightest sound. 
Juvenal Indeed mentions a drowsy husband. whoraUed 
an estate by snoring ; but then he i> represented to have 
slept what the common people call doysleep. Addison. 
My sleep was never more than what Is called dog-nleep; 
so that I could hear myself moaning, and was often, as It 
seemed to me, wakened suddenly by my own voice. 
De (luincey. Opium-eater, p. 35. 
dog's-meat (dogz'met), n. Scraps and refuse 
of meat used as food for dogs; especially, in- 
ferior meat set apart by a butcher to be sold 
for such use. 
dog's-mercury (dogz'meKku-ri), n. The com- 
mon name of Mercurialis perennis, natural order 
Euphorbiacea;. See mercury. 
dog S-nose (dogz'noz), n. A kind of mixed 
drink. See the extracts. [Eng.] 
Dog's note, which your committee find . . . to Ite com- 
pounded of warm porter, moist sugar, gin and nutmeg 
(a groan, and " so it is," front an elderly female). 
Dickens, 1'ickwick Papers, xxxii. 
The sergeant rose as Philip fell back, and brought up 
his own mug of l>eer, into which a noggin of gin hail been 
put (called in Yorkshire dog's nose). 
Mrs. GasJeell, Sylvia'* Lovers, xxxiv. 
dog's-tail grass. See grogs. 
dog-star (dog'star), . Sirius or Canicula, a 
star of the first magnitude in the constellation 
Canis Major, the heliacal rising of which (see 
heliacal) occurring in the hottest part of the 
year gave name to the dog-days (which see). 
See also Canicula, and cut under Canis. 
The Dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, 
All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 3. 
dog-stone (dog'stou), . A rough or shaped 
stone used for a millstone, 
dogstones (dog'stouz), n. An orchidaceous 
plant. Also called foolstones. 
dog's-tongue (dogs tang), . A plant, Cyno- 
glossum officinale. Also called hound's-tongue. 
His remedies were womanish and weak. Sage ami 
wormwood, . . . aog's-tunguf, . . . feverfew, and Faith, 
and all in small quantities, except the last. 
C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xclv. 
dog's-tooth grass. See grass. 
dog-tent (dog'teut), n. A kind of tent, so called 
because its si/.e and form resemble those of a 
common kind of dog-kennel. 
If tents are used, the small dog tent Is the best 
Sportsman's Gazette, p. 651. 
dog-tick (dog'tik), n. A tick which infests 
dogs. The commonest dog-tick of Great Britain, to which 
the name specifically applies, Is Jxode* ricinntt. Another 
species of Europe, /. reduviu*, is also found on dogs, but 
more frequently on cattle and sheep. There is no distinc- 
tive dog-tick in the United states, but /. l*i>-i* and /. mi.'. 
punctata are often found on dogs. 
dog-tired (dog'tird), a. Tired as a dog after a 
long chase. 
Tom is carried away by old Benjy, dog-tired and sur 
feited ith pleasure. 
T. Hughei, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 1 
dog-tooth (dog'toth), n. 1. 
The canine tooth of man ; a 
canine. Also called eye-tooth. 
2. A popular English 
name of the shells of /><- 
talium. 3. A steel punch 
used in working marble, 
dog-tooth (dog'tSth), a. and 
. I. a. In arch., an epithet 
applied to an ornamented 
molding cut in projecting 
teeth, of frequent occur- 
rence in early medieval 
architecture. 
II. . Dog-tooth molding. 
The western door [of the church] 
adds Norman dog-toi>th and chev- 
ron to the Saracenic billet Dog-tooth Moldto,;.- 
J. A. Symondt, Italy and I, reeve, church of K.,iid.Ch. 
[p. 172. rente-lnftrieurc, Fraace. 
