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