scepticizev.
/ˈskɛptɪsʌɪz/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > scepticism > treat sceptically [verb (transitive)] > remove by scepticism
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a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. Introd. 2 The more subtle [unbelievers] are ready to Scepticize away those grounds.
2. intransitive. To play the sceptic; to take up the position of a philosophical doubter.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > scepticism > be sceptical [verb (intransitive)]
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1698 F. B. Free but Modest Censure 6 He hath a great mind to Scepticize, and to maintain Paradoxes.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. i. 44 You can afford to scepticize where no one else will so much as hesitate.
1840 Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. 178 You used to scepticize till we both ran away.
1893 National Observer 25 Nov. 44/1 Mr. Owen is best described as scepticising pour encourager les autres.
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