English Dictionary

ipse dixit

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɪpseɪ ˈdɪksɪt/

名詞

修辞法

(rhetoric) A dogmatic and unproved proposition or dictum that is accepted solely on the authority of someone who is known to have asserted it. / An authority who makes such an assertion.

日本語の意味

（修辞学）権威者によって、根拠なく単にその権威の存在により受け入れられる、教条的な主張または断言 / （修辞学）そのような断言を行う権威者自体

When the committee accepted his ipse dixit without demanding evidence, they undermined the entire process of careful deliberation.

委員会が彼の証拠のない独断的な断定を証拠を求めずに受け入れたとき、慎重な審議のプロセス全体を損なった。

意味（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...

意味（2）

An authority who makes such an assertion.

ipse dixits （ plural ）