Definitions

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  • verb speak dogmatically
  • verb state as a dogma

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Examples

  • You dogmatise when you say that the lover arid the husband are mutually exclusive.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • She may yet prove herself tangible & solid, so I shall not dogmatise on the Point just yet.

    The Lipstick Coffeehouse. Ann Althouse 2008

  • But it would be premature to dogmatise on the subject.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • They should be developing a sceptical eye for the demagogue, the columnist, the campaigning obsessive, for those who dogmatise beyond their proper skills – and so yes, of course, for the preacher too.

    Oxford University Commemoration Day Sermon University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford 2004

  • Fifty years later the Duke of Argyll recalled that upon first hearing news of the revolt, he recognized that "all our flowers had lost their glory"; and Charles Kingsley despaired at the time that owing to the Mutiny, "I feel as if I could dogmatise no more" — an extraordinary concession for a Victorian.

    A Bit of Bunting 2001

  • Let it not be supposed that I mean to dogmatise upon a subject, concerning which all men are equally ignorant, or that I think the Gordian knot of the origin of evil can be disentangled by that or any similar assertions.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • We see no reason why this should be so, and, in the present state of our knowledge, this is a point on which no sane person would dogmatise; but it is possible!

    Woman and Labour 2003

  • Fifty years later the Duke of Argyll recalled that upon first hearing news of the revolt, he recognized that "all our flowers had lost their glory"; and Charles Kingsley despaired at the time that owing to the Mutiny, "I feel as if I could dogmatise no more" — an extraordinary concession for a Victorian.

    A Bit of Bunting 2001

  • My purpose here is not to dogmatise on the rules of translation, but to indicate those I have followed, or at least tried to the best of my ability to follow, in the present instance.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • It would be interesting to speculate, and with a few _ifs_ interposed, it might be easy to dogmatise.

    New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

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