dogmatize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of dogmatize
1605–15; < Late Latin dogmatizāre, equivalent to Latin dogmat ( icus ) dogmatic + -izāre -ize
Example Sentences
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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
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 Sinclair, Upton
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
"It may be," said Pastor Lindal; "but in all such matters we may dogmatize, and be very wide of the mark, although we cannot deny the possibility."
From A Danish Parsonage by Vicary, John Fulford
In the small book, Dei Doceri, I have shown my inclination to avoid being absolute in my judgments, a too common error, especially with minds that dogmatize passionately.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
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
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
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 Benson, Arthur Christopher
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
I think I had better stop dogmatizing, Tom.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James
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
Nineteen centuries of dogmatizing, to end in an "age of doubt" and a cry for the oblivion of Nirvana!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
It is not a matter for abstract dogmatizing to decide when this point is reached; it is a matter to be tested by practical experiment.
From African and European Addresses by Roosevelt, Theodore
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 Patterson, Robert
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