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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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