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Example sentences for "dicta"

Lexicographically close words:
dico; dicono; dicotyledonous; dicotyledons; dict; dictae; dictagraph; dictam; dictaphone; dictarum
  1. Mark Twain spoke his mind with utter disregard for other people's opinions, the dicta of criticism or the authoritative judgment of the schools.

  2. It would be absurd to maintain that Mark Twain's appeal to posterity depends upon the dicta of literary criticism.

  3. Et tamen fortasse servata est: a me enim ea, quae in promptu erant, dicta sunt, a Lucullo autem reconditiora desidero.

  4. Phrases like quae cum essent dicta consedimus often occur in similar places in Cic.

  5. The absolute worthlessness of unsupported dicta such as these, ought to be apparent to all.

  6. We shall then have full warrant for disregarding the dicta of modern sciolists on this great subject;--however arrogant their dogmatism, however confident their unsupported asseverations.

  7. Throughout he accompanies his authoritative matter with his own commentary--commonly cited as the Dicta Gratiani.

  8. The Dicta Gratiani never received such formal sanction by pope or council as the writings of Roman jurists received by being taken into Justinian's Digest.

  9. At the outset, we stated, as will be remembered, that Muhammedan scholars were accustomed to propound their dicta as utterances given by Muhammed himself, and in this form Christian ideas also came into circulation among Muhammedans.

  10. And these were settled by isolated texts from the Bible, or dicta of the earlier Schoolmen, and not by the investigation of facts.

  11. Every discovery of science or philosophy, contrary to the dicta of the Schoolmen, must be regarded as a crime.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dicta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.