Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To express oneself dogmatically in writing or speech.
  • intransitive verb To proclaim as dogma.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
  • transitive verb rare To deliver as a dogma.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To treat something as dogma
  • verb intransitive To speak or write dogmatically

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

  • verb speak dogmatically
  • verb state as a dogma

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Examples

  • 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.

    CHAPTER 28 2010

  • You can disagree with any facet of their dogma, but you can't dogmatize them out of existence.

    Texas Faith: Should the next Supreme Court justice be a Protestant? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • It is so hoang dã mà nó terrifies một số người Kitô hữu cố gắng dogmatize lo sợ của mình bằng cách lashing out at Kitô hữu khác, bởi vì gọn gàng Kitô giáo với tất cả các câu trả lời cho dễ hơn là một trong đó đạt ra những thắc mắc hoang dã của tình yêu Thiên Chúa, một tình yêu chúng tôi không thậm chí có kiếm được.

    ideonexus.com »2007» Tháng Chín 2007

  • Any effort to get beyond that, to some more definitive answer, would be an illicit attempt to dogmatize what could only be theologoumenon.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007

  • Any effort to get beyond that, to some more definitive answer, would be an illicit attempt to dogmatize what could only be theologoumenon.

    Orthodoxy on churches outside "the Church" Mike L 2007

  • All these sects, at that time, enjoyed complete liberty to dogmatize, discourse, and write, whenever the Jewish courtiers, settled at

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • In fact, I wonder if you even read the quote you yourself provided: “I have with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.”

    Happy Birthday Ben - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The pretension to dogmatize about them in each other is the root of most human injustices and cruelties, and the trait in human character most likely to make the angels weep.

    James on Tolerance Chris 2004

  • The pretension to dogmatize about them in each other is the root of most human injustices and cruelties, and the trait in human character most likely to make the angels weep.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Chris 2004

  • Only the propagators have to be sought in the arts faculty in Paris: on pain of excommunication, they are prohibited to dogmatize, disseminate, or sustain in any way

    Condemnation of 1277 Thijssen, Hans 2003

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