dogma

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

   They believed all the nonsense dogma.

From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”). Treated in the 17th and 18th century as Greek, with plural dogmata. Compare decent.

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