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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

precisify en · VERB

Etymology

From precise + -ify. Attested since the 20th century.

Meanings

  1. To make precise; to make more precise.
    • To precisify is to rule out the possibility of certain truth-value gaps. 1996, Rosanna Kenney, Vagueness: A Reader, page 129:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
precisifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
precisifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
precisified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
precisified Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

precisification