dogmatize

[dawg-muh-tahyz, dog-]

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verb (used without object), dog·ma·tized, dog·ma·tiz·ing.

to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.

verb (used with object), dog·ma·tized, dog·ma·tiz·ing.

to assert or deliver as a dogma.

Also especially British, dog·ma·tise.

Origin of dogmatize

1605–15; < Late Latin dogmatizāre, equivalent to Latin dogmat(icus) dogmatic + -izāre -ize

Related formsdog·ma·ti·za·tion, noundog·ma·tiz·er, noun

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Related Words for dogmatize

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Historical Examples of dogmatize

Neither will he dogmatize about the manner in which we are 'born again' (Republic).
Gorgias
Plato
The Editor of The Times declined to dogmatize on the subject.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920
Various
This gives me the indefeasible right to dogmatize about preaching.
My New Curate
P.A. Sheehan
Shall we dogmatize, especially on the one thing of which we know nothing?
The Tyranny of the Dark
Hamlin Garland
But mark, I say only seems, for who may dogmatize on such matters!
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories
Robert Ford

British Dictionary definitions for dogmatize

dogmatize

dogmatise

verb

to say or state (something) in a dogmatic manner

Derived Formsdogmatism, noundogmatization or dogmatisation, noundogmatizer or dogmatiser, noun

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