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
"Thus, before we can dogmatize upon on to logical subjects, we must settle this question—Can we transcend the sphere of our consciousness, and know things per se?"
From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles
Says Coleridge, "To dogmatize a crime, that is, to teach it as a doctrine, is itself a crime."
From A Letter to the Hon. Samuel Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. by Dexter, Franklin
Let genius talk of abstract beauty, and philosophers dogmatize on order.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.
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 Addams, Jane
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
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 Fiske, John
Upon such questions as these, we have, during the controversy, dogmatized much, and thought little.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
She must listen only with a frankly questioning attitude to the dogmatized opinions of man-made society.
From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret
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
I say not this, with the least design of limiting the Stage too servilely to twenty-four hours: however he be pleased to tax me with dogmatizing in that point.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor
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 Poe, Edgar A.
He had been arrested at Madrid, in 1562, as a dogmatizing Lutheran, and after remaining for a long time in the prisons at Toledo, he contrived to make his escape.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
These must be considered as being given without any intention of dogmatizing, and as merely expressing my own personal opinion.
From Signs of Change by Morris, William
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