dogmatize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- dogmatism noun
- dogmatization noun
- dogmatizer noun
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
To doubt in the right place, is often the best cure for doubt; and to dogmatize in the wrong place, is often the most certain road to scepticism.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
I do not care to dogmatize, or predict, or make guesses of any kind.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
It is not a less, but a more, profound sense of the seriousness of the problem of moral character, that makes us hesitate to dogmatize concerning the future life.
From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by King, Henry Churchill
It does not seem to me good science or good sense to dogmatize about what this race will know, or what will be its tools of thought.
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
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