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
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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
One is tempted to linger over that moment when Quixote ceased to experiment and began to dogmatize.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
It shows us the vast importance of being thoroughly acquainted with a subject before we dogmatize upon it.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
Speaking individually, I prefer rather to examine into the ways of Providence—i.e., of the Almighty, without framing any theory of right and wrong, than to dogmatize upon what He must intend by this or that.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas
The English language is susceptible of many interpretations, and who could dogmatize on the precise value to be attached to the word "watch!"
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard
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
He never dogmatized, preached, or laid down the law.
From Matthew Arnold by Russell, George William Erskine
Of course this is but a rough specimen of the dialogue which was conducted by the Church with the various guessers at great Truths, who debated, disputed, and dogmatized, during the early centuries.
From The Prayer Book Explained by Jackson, Percival
In short, he was a leader of men, a zealot, a formalist and an inquisitor—one of great mentality dogmatized, of great spirit prejudiced, of immense capabilities perverted.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
He proclaims war on all that cannot be demonstrated in reality; first and foremost, therefore, on Platonic love, then on all dogmatizing philosophy, especially its two extremes of Stoicism and Pythagoreanism.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
Time spent in dogmatizing appeared to him time lost.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour
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 Roosevelt, Theodore
Denying the offence of dogmatizing, he confessed having held heretical opinions, and offered to abjure them.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
Things are not stereo165typed, hence the danger of dogmatizing about living things.
From Under the Maples by Burroughs, John
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