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Dogmatize

Dogmatize \Dog"ma*tize\, v. t. To deliver as a dogma. [R.]

Dogmatize

Dogmatize \Dog"ma*tize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dogmatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Dogmatizing.] [L. dogmatizare to lay down an opinion, Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dogmatiser. See Dogma.] To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

The pride of dogmatizing schools.
--Blackmore.

Wiktionary
dogmatize

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To treat something as dogma 2 (context intransitive English) To speak or write dogmatically

WordNet
dogmatize
  1. v. state as a dogma [syn: dogmatise]

  2. speak dogmatically [syn: dogmatise]

Usage examples of "dogmatize".

Their infatuation encouraging me, I spoke like a learned physician, I dogmatized, I quoted authors whom I had never read.

The traditions going back to the great founders are an explicitly teachable knowledge that can be dogmatized, that is, professionally rationalized.

Old Doctor Pavlov ignored him entirely, as he had ignored so many others who had, blindly and unscientifically dogmatized about the meaning of his important, but strictly limited, experiments.

And do we know what made apes turn manward on Earth, let alone dogmatizing about the subject on a foreign planet?

The wary critic will be very careful about dogmatizing over the nature and distribution of literary products.

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.