| 单词 |
scepticize |
| 释义 |
scepticize, v.|ˈskɛptɪsaɪz| [f. sceptic + -ize.] †1. trans. With away: To remove (a certainty) by casting doubt upon its proofs. Obs.
1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. Introd. 2 The more subtle [unbelievers] are ready to Scepticize away those grounds. 2. intr. To play the sceptic; to take up the position of a philosophical doubter.
1698H. B. Free but Modest Cens. 6 He hath a great mind to Scepticize, and to maintain Paradoxes. 1709Shaftesbury Moralists ii. i. 44 You can afford to scepticize where no one else will so much as hesitate. 1840Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. 178 You used to scepticize till we both ran away. 1893Nat. Observer 25 Nov. 44/1 Mr. Owen is best described as scepticising pour encourager les autres. |

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