dogmatize
dogmatise BrE

But such extreme states are dangerous things to dogmatize about.

It is of course rash to dogmatize as to what science may achieve in the future.

It is not a matter on which most churches have ventured to dogmatize.

These are matters on which no scholar would dare to dogmatize.

Neither will he dogmatize about the manner in which we are 'born again' (Republic).

Yet like most events at sea, Ramage mused, it was impossible to dogmatize.

I dogmatize and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinions I find delight."

And if it is impossible to dogmatize about such states, it is still more impossible to describe them.

It is impossible to dogmatize on these subjects when one remembers how widespread each of the above factors is among primitive cultures in various parts of the world.

Thus, the Pyrrhonian Skeptic is one who believes possibly many things, but yet does not dogmatize about those beliefs since she finds no ultimate justification for them.

In soteriology, Tertullian does not dogmatize; he prefers to keep silence at the mystery of the cross (De Patientia, iii).

"Not on the Murray side, anyhow," he added after a moment's reflection, which apparently reminded him that he knew too little about the Starrs to dogmatize concerning them.

Pope Pius IX and the claim that the First Vatican Council and the papal infallibility were to dogmatize papal temporal power.

On this point, however, the Christian Church in Italy chooses to have peaceful and ordered dialogue with other Christians without wanting to dogmatize as to their own experience of faith and theology.

If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.

Others proved unstable: the German pietist group, under George Rapp, which settled at Harmony, Pennsylvania in 1804, practised auricular confession, opposed procreation and marriage, and contrived to dogmatize itself out of existence.

James ends section V by arguing that empiricists are really no more tentative about their beliefs and conclusions than the absolutists: "The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

There I dogmatize, there I laugh and there the newspapers sometimes make me scold; and in dogmatizing, laughing, and scolding I find delight, and why should not I enjoy it, since no one is the worse for it and I am the better.

It is possible to outline a story from this series of love lyrics, but the incidents are slight, and in this case, as in other Elizabethan sonnet-cycles, it is difficult to dogmatize as to what is the expression of a real personal experience, and what is intellectual exercise in imitation of Petrarch.

They can only dogmatise, implant and multiply that which is entirely superficial.

There is no need to dogmatise everything that happens to be true, even if the arguments for truth even happen to be sufficient for such an attempt.

And yet, and yet, after my experience of Mavovo and his Snake, I did not feel inclined to dogmatise about anything.

Far be it for the civilian to dogmatise upon such matters, but one can repeat, and to the best of one's judgment endorse, the opinion of the vast majority of officers.

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.