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capsulize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English capsule Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English capsulize From capsule + -ize.

Meanings

1. To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.
2. (figuratively) To make into a concise form; to encapsulate.
   • Four great sayings capsulize his message: […] 1999, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Weaver's Wisdom, glossary entry for ‘Yogaswami’, page 289
   • Radical academic Howard Zinn's quip that the U.S. is "always ready to kill people to protect them from communism" capsulized many presentations that examined U.S. international and domestic aggression (cloaked as jingoistic anti-terrorism) against progressive movments ^([sic]) and governments. 1988 December 11, Wickie Stamps, “Cambridge Conference Chronicles Anticommunism”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 3:
   • Nothing is capsulized in me / On either side of town / The streets were never really mine / Not mine these glamour gowns 1975, Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns:

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capsulization

Synonyms

capsulate