- an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church.
- a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down, as by a church: the dogma of the Assumption;the recently defined dogma of papal infallibility.
- prescribed doctrine proclaimed as unquestionably true by a particular group: the difficulty of resisting political dogma.
- a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle: the classic dogma of objectivity in scientific observation.
- a religious doctrine or system of doctrines proclaimed by ecclesiastical authority as true
- a belief, principle, or doctrine or a code of beliefs, principles, or doctrines
