Usually means: Assertion made without proof given.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. ipse dixit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ipse dixit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ipse dixit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ipse dixit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ipse dixit: Vocabulary.com
  6. ipse dixit: Wordnik
  7. ipse dixit: Wiktionary
  8. ipse dixit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ipse dixit: Dictionary.com
  10. ipse dixit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Ipse dixit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ipse dixit: Rhymezone
  13. Ipse Dixit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. ipse dixit: Free Dictionary
  15. ipse dixit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ipse dixit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ipse dixit: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ipse dixit: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ipse dixit: A Word A Day
  2. ipse dixit: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ipse dixit)

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

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