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Dogmatize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To express oneself dogmatically in writing or speech.

v. To proclaim as dogma.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To treat something as dogma

v. To speak or write dogmatically

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

v. To deliver as a dogma.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make dogmatic assertions; utter or write positive statements, but without adducing arguments or evidence in support of what is asserted.

To assert or deliver as a dogma; make a dogma of.

To treat dogmatically; make a subject of dogmatism: as, to dogmatize a political question.

Also spelled dogmatise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. speak dogmatically

v. state as a dogma

Word Usage

"Bill Brown, somewhat of a shyster, and his ear ever cocked to the crowd, was not above taking advantage when opportunity offered, and when it did not offer, to dogmatize artfully."

Verb Form

dogmatized dogmatizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

speak talk formulate articulate phrase

Form

dogmatized dogmatizing