skepticize

English

Etymology

skeptic +‎ -ize

Verb

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

1. To doubt; to pretend to doubt everything.
   • 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:

     to skepticize, where no one else will […] hesitate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skepticize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)