Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial or authoritative teacher. Also spelled
dogmatiser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
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- noun One who
dogmatizes ; abold asserter ; amagisterial teacher .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This sagacious sophist and dogmatizer also discovered that, among other evils, tea-drinking deprived its devotees of the power of expectoration, and entailed sterility; wherefore he hoped
The Little Tea Book Arthur Gray
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But the man who denies the existence of the Deity because he cannot comprehend his origin, is even less a Humbug than the one who knows all about him -- the pitiful dogmatizer who devotes his life to the defense of some poor little guess-work interpretation of the mysterious plans of him who brings forth Mazaroth in his season and guides Arcturus with his sons.
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Dogmatism is the fecund mother of doubt, a manacle on the human mind, a brake on the golden wheel of Christian progress; and every dogmatizer, whether in science, politics or religion, is consciously or unconsciously, a Humbug.
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If any devout dogmatizer really desires to learn how general is this attitude of nonreceptivity of the orthodox religion, let him assume the role of a scoffer; then he will hear the truth from men's lips; for while the doubter may yield passive assent to the prevalent orthodoxy, the earnest believer is not apt to enact the role of Peter without compulsion.
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The heretic, he stated, had feigned repentance to save his life, but finding that, at any rate, his head would be cut off as a dogmatizer, he retracted his recantation.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The heretic, he stated, had feigned repentance to save his life, but finding that, at any rate, his head would be cut off as a dogmatizer, he retracted his recantation.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The heretic, he stated, had feigned repentance to save his life, but finding that, at any rate, his head would be cut off as a dogmatizer, he retracted his recantation.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The heretic, he stated, had feigned repentance to save his life, but finding that, at any rate, his head would be cut off as a dogmatizer, he retracted his recantation.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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