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
The less we dogmatize about his works and ways, the freer will the world be of secondary, second-rate commentaries.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
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
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
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
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 Elizabeth Miller
Thus the first generation of disciples dogmatized about him, instead of narrating his life,—a task which to them would have seemed of little profit.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
“Dad always prayed: ‘May the East wind never blow,’ when we went fishing down in Maine,” dogmatized Ace.
From Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee
All we can do is to tread lightly and guess without dogmatizing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
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
Interesting constitutional questions will inevitably arise in teaching this section, but the events are too recent to admit of dogmatizing on lines of policy.
From A Short History of the United States by Edward Channing
He has to learn to live with others who differ from him in their dogmatizing.
From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray
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
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