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Definition of Dogmatize

1. Verb. State as a dogma.

Definition of Dogmatize

1. v. i. To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

2. v. t. To deliver as a dogma.

Definition of Dogmatize

1. Verb. (transitive) To treat something as dogma ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To speak or write dogmatically ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dogmatize

1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogmatize

Literary usage of Dogmatize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... that he who draws from his own mind to entertain his circle will foon be tempted to dogmatize, ..."

2. Congested Prices by Moses Lewis Scudder (1883)
"easiest, if one is willing to dogmatize or to prophesy, for in this uncertain field a dogmatic assertion or a prophecy may possibly prove" correct; ..."

3. Life, Diary and Letters of Oscar Lovell Shafter, Associate Justice, Supreme by Oscar Lovell Shafter, Emma Shafter-Howard, Flora Haines Loughead (1915)
"Lawyers continue to dogmatize without sensible abatement. ... Physicians rarely dogmatize in council—oftener with their patients, but rarely with them. ..."

4. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"For, in admitting the infallibility of the church, they necessarily deny to themselves the right or even the disposition to dogmatize. How can we dogmatize, ..."

5. Caseine: Being Rural Meditations by Joseph Fitzgerald (1869)
"I am not very well fitted to dogmatize on the affirmative side of the ... For these sufficient reasons I forego my undoubted right to dogmatize here. ..."

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