cardinalize

verb

Etymology

From cardinal + -ize.

  1. derived from cardinālis
  2. derived from cardinal
  3. borrowed from Cardinal
  4. suffixed as cardinalize — “cardinal + ize”

Definitions

  1. to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the…

    to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).

  2. To exalt to the office of a cardinal.

    • It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all
  3. To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.

    • the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA