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Dogmatizing

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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dogmatizing

vb. (present participle of dogmatize English)

Usage examples of "dogmatizing".

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.

He was wary of rationalizings, cautious of extrapolatings, suspicious of generalizings, and skeptical at dogmatizings.