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taxonify en · VERB

Etymology

From taxon + -ify.

Meanings

1. To categorize.
   • Wilkins prefers taxonifying types of communication, so he notes that stenography can be either private or public. 2016, Katherine Ellison, A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals:
   • In this framework, systems are represented using a codesign request-resource model coupled with software architectures taxonified by [9] ^([sic]). 1997, 1997 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, page 264:
   • “With the onset of the Age of Reason and science, the educated upper and middle classes in Britain began looking at society and finding ways to taxonify the poor,” Marshall says. 2011 March 21, Matilda Battersby, “Street Cries: depictions of London's poor”, in Independent:
   • One can only regret the disappearance of a treatise on acting by Theophrastus which would doubtless have taxonified all of the […] 1976, T Long, “Understanding comic action in Aristophanes”, in The Classical World:
   • A thanatologist is a designated thinker about death. He spells out the obvious and the not-so-obvious; he classifies; he taxonifies; he divides and subdivides; he takes a long view by stepping outside his home and outside his church to look from intellectual space free of terrestrial gravity and the baggage of everyday thought. 2008, Edwin S. Shneidman, A Commonsense Book of Death:

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