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lexiconize en · VERB

Etymology

From lexicon + -ize.

Meanings

1. To create a lexicon for.
   • We hope that the present attempt to lexiconize the vast and multifaceted worlds of music's Romanticisms will serve as a stepping-stone for more satisfactory future contributions. 2013, John Michael Cooper, Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, page 11:
   • In order to delineate and label realities, there are no natural concepts that only require linguistic label to be reflected; rather, groups lexiconize naturalized concepts and elements; pivotal to this linguistic encoding of notions are customs and worldview, both of which have been located within the Yoruba cosmology. 2016, Augustine Agwuele, The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland:
   • The dog had no way of naming things for itself and so Teddy had dutifully taken it upon himself to lexiconize the world for it. 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins: A Novel:

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