dogmatize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of dogmatize
1605–15; < Late Latin dogmatizāre, equivalent to Latin dogmat ( icus ) dogmatic + -izāre -ize
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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
Well, you may be right:" I replied smiling; "we really know so little about these things as yet that it's impossible to dogmatize in any particular instance.
From The White Man's Foot by Grant Allen
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 Upton Sinclair
One is tempted to linger over that moment when Quixote ceased to experiment and began to dogmatize.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
"It may be," said Pastor Lindal; "but in all such matters we may dogmatize, and be very wide of the mark, although we cannot deny the possibility."
From A Danish Parsonage by John Fulford Vicary
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
Metaphysicians scrutinized the humble and sweet mystery, overlaid it with definitions, harmonized it with ancient systems, dogmatized it, made it hard, and subtle, and uninspiring.
From From a College Window by Arthur Christopher Benson
“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
It is not a matter for abstract dogmatizing to decide when this point is reached; it is a matter to be tested by practical experiment.
From African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt
It mattered not whether the truth was even demonstrably such; for the dogmatizing philosophers of that epoch regarded only the road by which it professed to have been attained.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe
Moral reasons have given rise to laws of protection in marriage, but the mania which man possesses of dogmatizing on everything has often caused these laws to degenerate into abuse or religious absurdities.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
If, with all his erudition, Mr. Hammond still abstains from dogmatizing on this subject, I can well afford to hold my crude opinions in abeyance.
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Men are constantly dogmatizing theories of sense and matter as the salvable hope of the race.
From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Alexander Crummell
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