dogmatize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of dogmatize
1605–15; < Late Latin dogmatizāre, equivalent to Latin dogmat ( icus ) dogmatic + -izāre -ize
Example Sentences
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The course of ileitis is so variable that doctors cannot dogmatize about the outcome of an individual case.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here again we do not wish to dogmatize, in apparent lack of scientific data, and assert that we need feel no apprehension.
From Japan and the California Problem by Toyokichi Iyenaga
What need to add that such an one is not therefore a Master of Divinity? possesses no qualification which authorizes him to dogmatize about any one department of Theological Science?
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
On the constitutional argument, only the briefest comment will be attempted; and that without any intention to dogmatize upon a most complicated subject.
From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Herbert Feis
Let genius talk of abstract beauty, and philosophers dogmatize on order.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
Mr. Delrahim himself, in academic life, had dogmatized that Comcast-style solutions were too “regulatory.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2018
Watch Smith" they dogmatized, "let me tell you something .
From Time Magazine Archive
“Dad always prayed: ‘May the East wind never blow,’ when we went fishing down in Maine,” dogmatized Ace.
From Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee
It is not that she herself is more disposed than man to mystic beliefs, but these when once dogmatized dazzle the eyes of the suffering with visions of compensation in a better world.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
She must listen only with a frankly questioning attitude to the dogmatized opinions of man-made society.
From Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger
He was a firm but not dogmatizing advocate for the sentiments usually styled Calvinistical.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
These must be considered as being given without any intention of dogmatizing, and as merely expressing my own personal opinion.
From Signs of Change by William Morris
With his bursts of door-slamming activity, his fits of bookish indolence, his crude revolutionary dogmatizing and his flashes of precocious irony, the boy was not unlike a boisterous embodiment of his father's theories.
From The Reef by Edith Wharton
Nineteen centuries of dogmatizing, to end in an "age of doubt" and a cry for the oblivion of Nirvana!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
All we can do is to tread lightly and guess without dogmatizing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
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