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
Every student must have had experiences of a sort to make him slow to dogmatize when such points are in question.
From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey
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
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 Thomas Inman
"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 Charles Bradlaugh
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
Though she had very clearly defined opinions on every subject that came under her consideration, she never dogmatized.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tolstoy dogmatized about lady-like charity, apropos of Turgenieff's daughter.
From Reminiscences of Tolstoy by George Calderon
He never dogmatized, preached, or laid down the law.
From Matthew Arnold by George William Erskine Russell
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
Things are not stereo165typed, hence the danger of dogmatizing about living things.
From Under the Maples by John Burroughs
Yet this is usually assumed as a matter of course, and any one who ventures to question the validity of such an inference, must be prepared to find himself accused of dogmatizing.
From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John S.J. Gerard
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 Kuno Francke
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
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