dogmatize

especially British, dog·ma·tise

[dawg-muh-tahyz, dog-]

verb (used without object)

dogmatized, dogmatizing 

1. to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.

verb (used with object)

dogmatized, dogmatizing 

1. to assert or deliver as a dogma.

dogmatize

/ ˈdɒɡməˌtaɪz /

verb

1. to say or state (something) in a dogmatic manner

Other Word Forms

• dogmatizer noun
• dogmatization noun
• dogmatism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dogmatize¹

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

Example Sentences

“Professors as a class,” Holmes remarked, “dogmatize on unrealities.”

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I do not care to dogmatize, or predict, or make guesses of any kind.

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Let genius talk of abstract beauty, and philosophers dogmatize on order.

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One is tempted to linger over that moment when Quixote ceased to experiment and began to dogmatize.

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The question may be argued from many points of view, and we put forward these remarks simply as suggestions, without any wish to dogmatize.

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