Word Meanings - SKEPTICIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything. To skepticize, where no one else will . . . hesitate. Shaftesbury.

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• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• PRETEND
  1. To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to. "Countries that pretend to freedom." Swift. For to what fine he would anon pretend, That know I well. Chaucer.
• PRETENDED
  Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
• WHEREINTO
  1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
• WHERESOE'ER
  Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• PRETENDENCE
  The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.
• WHERESO
  Wheresoever.
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• WHEREUNTO
  See WHERETO
• WHEREUPON
  Upon which; in consequence of which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon.
• SKEPTICIZE
  To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything. To skepticize, where no one else will . . . hesitate. Shaftesbury.
• PRETENDINGLY
  As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• ALLWHERE
  Everywhere.
• EACHWHERE
  Everywhere. The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser.
• DOUBT
  duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or