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scientize en · VERB

Etymology

From scient(ific) + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make scientific.
   • Husserl tried to scientize psychology. 2012, John-Michael Kuczynski, Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology, →ISBN, page 135:
   • So far, I have argued that attempts in the 20th century to scientize the humanities wound up putting them at risk. 1996, Henry J. Perkinson, No safety in numbers, →ISBN:
   • Eugenics is an early chapter in a long history of scientized prejudice in the United States, a story in which scientific evidence for racial, class, and gender hierarchies became popular and entered public discourse on a broad scale. 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 94:

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Synonyms

scientificize