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
I do not care to dogmatize, or predict, or make guesses of any kind.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
His heroine, indeed, in conformity to his own example, is always prating about virtue, even at the time when she deviates most essentially from its precepts; but to dogmatize is not to be innocent.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
"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
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
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
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 Percival Jackson
Metaphysicians scrutinized the humble and sweet mystery, overlaid it with definitions, harmonized it with ancient systems, dogmatized it, made it hard, and subtle, and uninspiring.
From From a College Window by Arthur Christopher Benson
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
With his bursts of door-slamming activity, his fits of bookish indolence, his crude revolutionary dogmatizing and his flashes of precocious irony, the boy was not unlike a boisterous embodiment of his father's theories.
From The Reef by Edith Wharton
This of course has its good side: it saves him from dogmatizing on uncertain points, and he has a hearty appreciation of the confusion in his authorities: xxxvii.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
He was a firm but not dogmatizing advocate for the sentiments usually styled Calvinistical.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
I scented entertainment, for Penny dogmatizing on spiritualism was likely to prove interesting.
From Up in Ardmuirland by Michael Barrett
If you are a philosopher I wish you to cease dogmatizing about fanaticism, and enthusiasm, and the ignorance, and credulity of believers, at least until you philosophically examine the evidence upon which they believe.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
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