skepticize

Meanings

verbskepticize (third-person singular simple present skepticizes, present participle skepticizing, simple past and past participle skepticized)

present singular third person skepticizes · participle present skepticizing · participle past skepticized · past skepticized

To doubt; to be skeptical
to skepticize, where no one else will […] hesitate
1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody”, in Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, volume II, London, published 1732

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