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skepticise

skepticise is the alternative form of skepticize.

Meaning of skepticize

Verb

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

  1. To doubt; to be skeptical
    • to skepticize, where no one else will […] hesitate1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody”, in Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, volume II, London, published 1732

Forms of skepticise

third-person singular presentskepticises
present participleskepticising
past participleskepticised
pastskepticised

Questions about skepticise

What is skepticise the alternative form of?
Skepticise is the alternative form of skepticize.

Words near skepticise in the dictionary

  1. skeptic
  2. skeptical
  3. skepticality
  4. skeptically
  5. skepticalness
  6. skepticise
  7. skepticised
  8. skepticises
  9. skepticising
  10. skepticism
  11. skepticisms

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