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ipse dixit
[ ip-se dik-sit; English ip-see dik-sit ]
noun
- an assertion without proof.
ipse dixit
/ ˈɪpseɪ ˈdɪksɪt /
noun
- an arbitrary and unsupported assertion
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ipse dixit1
< Latin: he himself said it
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ipse dixit1
C16, literally: he himself said it
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Example Sentences
It should have been—so we were to believe on his ipse dixit—contemporaneous with the Fall.
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A man who says now what he denied six years ago cannot expect to be believed on his ipse dixit.
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Or why should there be any ipse dixit in our poetry, any more than there is in our philosophy?
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I want to say that, in the first place, I have made no charge of this sort upon my ipse dixit.
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Swedenborg's ipse dixit ought to convince the most incredulous; for he speaks "from what has been heard and seen."
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