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DOGMAS

Definition: DOGMAS

DOGMAS

Plural

1. Of Dogma

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DOGMAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Crosswords: DOGMAS

Specialty definitions using "DOGMAS": Dogmatic School. (references)
Etymologies containing "DOGMAS": Dogma. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DOGMAS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies (Chatham House Studies in Political Thinking) (reference)

  • Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge: On Two Dogmas of Epistemology (reference)

  • Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas (reference)

  • Mysteries of Freemasonry or an Exposition of the Religious Dogmas and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: An Exposition of the Religious Dogmas and cus (reference)

  • Some Dogmas of Religion (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: DOGMAS

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Herzen

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Fulton J. Sheen

To say we want no dogmas in religion is to assert a dogma.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: DOGMAS

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The church is not the stone building nor even the clergy and their dogmas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: DOGMAS

"DOGMAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOGMAS" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%6541,645

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOGMAS

Language Translations for "DOGMAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

教条 (Doctrine, Dogma, Dogmatic, Dogmatical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ogmasday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DOGMAS

Misspellings

"DOGMAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dagnaw, digma, doga, dogam, dogman, dogmata, dogmeat, dogmen, dognma, dojums, Domasi, Domgasse, doogma, dooma, dormas, douma, Doumas, dugam, duignans, ogams. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DOGMAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-m-o-s"

-1 letter: dagos, dogma, goads, ogams.

-2 letters: ados, dago, dags, dams, dogs, doms, gads, gams, goad, goas, gods, mads, mags, moas, mods, mogs, ogam, sago, smog, soda, soma.

-3 letters: ado, ads, ago, dag, dam, dog, dom, dos, gad, gam, gas, goa, god, gos, mad, mag, mas, moa, mod, mog, mos, ods, oms, sad, sag, sod.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-m-o-s"
 

+1 letter: goddams.

 

+2 letters: demagogs, digamous, gambados, gladsome, goddamns, gormands, mangolds, megadose, megapods.

 

+3 letters: amidogens, dogmatics, dogmatism, dogmatist, dragomans, gambadoes, gamodemes, gladsomer, gourmands, ideograms, marigolds, megadoses, megapodes, ondograms, pagandoms, sigmoidal.

 

+4 letters: audiograms, cladograms, demagogies, demagogues, deprograms, dogmatisms, dogmatists, dogmatizes, doomsaying, endogamies, endogamous, gladsomely, gladsomest, glamorised, gormandise, groundmass, groundsman, guardrooms, radiograms.

 

+5 letters: admonishing, amygdaloids, campgrounds, cardiograms, dendrograms, dermatogens, dichogamies, dichogamous, dogmatizers, doomsayings, gadoliniums, gangsterdom, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, gourmandism, mandragoras, misdiagnose, montagnards, sigmoidally, smorgasbord, vagabondism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DOGMAS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 47 4D 41 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    --.    --    .-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01000111 01001101 01000001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#71 &#77 &#65 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0047 004D 0041 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384941473553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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