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Definition of Dogmatise

1. Verb. State as a dogma.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogmatise

Literary usage of Dogmatise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"On the contrary, without presuming to dogmatise on such a subject, we should be inclined to say, that we have met with no Scottish law book, which appears ..."

2. Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913 by Oliver Lodge (1914)
"No; but it is my function to remind you and myself that our studies do not exhaust the Universe, and that if we dogmatise in a negative direction, ..."

3. An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon and Its Dependencies by Charles Pridham (1849)
"... time next to a terra incognita to the writers in question, who contrived to dogmatise in a matter in which they have only displayed their ignorance. ..."

4. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1899)
"... must not dogmatise about it. The crux of irreversibility suggests that the world is not a mere mechanism. The physicist only describes the utterances of ..."

5. Psychological Medicine; a Manual on Mental Diseases for Practitioners and by Maurice Craig (1905)
"But the psychologist of to-day prefers not to dogmatise in either direction, and the theory of psycho- physical parallelism is that which is largely held. ..."

6. The Office and Limits of Literary Criticism: A Prize Essay Read in the by Henry de Burgh Hollings (1869)
"To dogmatise about anything so subtle, so full of a light play of thought and feeling, as well as of intense sympathy, would indeed be folly, ..."

7. Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick (1899)
"CHAPTER VIL Does the Sceptic dogmatise f 13 We say that the Sceptic does not ... Furthermore, he does not dogmatise even when he utters the Sceptical ..."

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