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Dogmatized

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.

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dogmatized

vb. (en-past of: dogmatize)

Usage examples of "dogmatized".

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.