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pemmicanize en · VERB

Etymology

From pemmican + -ize.

Meanings

1. To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
   • For coal-tar-dyed hard candies and pemmicanized oranges I gave the jumping Methodists a visit. 1957, James Laughlin, New Directions in Prose and Poetry - Volume 16, page 226:
   • The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind. 1887, Canada. Parliament. Senate, Journals of the Senate of Canada, page 387:
   • Driver mentions (elem. 338-40) that most of the northwestern peoples ground "meat or fish" and added grease or berries, in other words, more or less pemmicanized it; which suggests they were not too fond of the mere dry powder. 1960, Research Studies: Monographic supplement - Issues 1-2, page 121:
2. To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.
   • It would therefore be unjust to M. Beer, since deceased, to allow my work to be supposed a full or faithful version of his successful attempt to pemmicanize tragic interest. 1856, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, The Pilgrimage: And Other Poems, page 133:
   • If David Graham Phillips could have pemmicanized his story of Susan Lenox, he would have produced a pamphlet that would have made revolution. 1972, Holbrook Jackson, To-day - Volumes 5-6, page 79:
   • His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier. 1845 July 12, “The Late thomas Hood”, in The Living Age, volume 6, number 61, page 64:
   • There is no better way of achieving this desirable end than by the use of a slogan. The appeal or announcement must be "pemmicanized" into a command, a broad hint or a statement. 1923, The Washington Newspaper:
   • I have of course inferred these questions from the surviving remains of very large numbers of thinkers in the early period of Greek philosophy, and 'pemmicanized' them into a tidy list. 2005, Chris Emlyn-Jones, Plato, Trevor Saunders, Early Socratic Dialogues:

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Deriveds

pemmicanization