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語源

From skeptic +‎ -ize.

動詞

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

1. To doubt; to be skeptical
   • 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

参照

• “skepticize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.