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ipsedixit

ipsedixit is the alternative form 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.

Forms of ipsedixit

pluralipsedixits

Questions about ipsedixit

What is ipsedixit the alternative form of?
Ipsedixit is the alternative form of ipse dixit.

Words near ipsedixit in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ipsedixit (page history and authors); ipse dixit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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