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ipse dixits

ipse dixits is the plural of ipse dixit.

Meaning of ipse dixit

Noun

ipse dixit (countable and uncountable, plural ipse dixits)

  1. (rhetoric) A dogmatic and unproved proposition or dictum that is accepted solely on the authority of someone who is known to have asserted it.
    • To, avoid, therefore, all Imputation of laying down a Rule for Poſterity, founded only on the Authority of ipſe dixit; for which, to ſay the Truth, we have not the profoundeſt Veneration; […]1749, Henry Fielding, “Of the Serious in Writing; and for What Purpose It Is Introduced”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V, page 113
  2. An authority who makes such an assertion.

Questions about ipse dixits

What is ipse dixits the plural of?
Ipse dixits is the plural of ipse dixit.

Words near ipse dixits in the dictionary

  1. ipsatizing
  2. iPSC
  3. iPSCs
  4. ipsdienol
  5. ipse dixit
  6. ipse dixits
  7. ipsedixit
  8. ipsedixitism
  9. ipsedixitisms
  10. ipsedixitist
  11. ipsedixitists

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