Dictionary

cardinalize en · VERB

Etymology

From cardinal + -ize.

Meanings

1. 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 1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book:
3. (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
   • the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

Forms

Deriveds

cardinalization

Relateds

ordinalize