Dogmatic \Dog*mat"ic\, Dogmatical \Dog*mat`ic*al\, a. [L. dogmaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dogmatique.]

1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.

2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.

Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. -- Spectator.

[They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. -- Glanvill.

Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

Syn: Magisterial; arrogant. See Magisterial.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)