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terminize en · VERB · etymology 1

From Latin terminus + -ize.

To make a term for.
- On account of its inherent ambiguity (and the resulting inconsistency of its application) and negative associations, it is a label which it is hardly possible or useful to terminize. 1999, Linguistica Pragensia - Issue 2, page 28:
- This was terminized polarization of light. 1908, A Calendar of Invention and Discovery, page 23:
- Hence , ushmā (or ushnatā) is an expressive equivalent for temperature. I do not know why the Central Hindi Directorate has terminized heat as ushmā, and temperature as tapa, thereby interchanging the cause and effect. 1965, Seminar on Technical and Scientific Translation, 15-17 April 1965:
- To terminize this multi-ordinal system, we cannot apply any existing words. Limitations of present terminology were discussed at the beginning of this article. "Darwinism", or even "pan-Darwinism", for example, would connote fecundity, combat, genes, and other qualities. 1967, Systematics - Volume 5, page 24:

Spelling	Features	Source
terminized	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
terminized	Tense=Past	lexicographic
terminizes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
terminizing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic

From terminal + -ize.

(rare) To make terminal; to end or terminate.
- Was it not criminal to terminize appearances of multiple savants into terminal categorization, cast visionists in abattoirs called friendship rests? 1976, Georgiana Peacher, Mary Stuart's Ravishment Descending Time, page 57:
- A movement for a nationalization of Senior girls' honorary societies terminized in a convention held in Syracuse, New York, February 15 and 16, 1918, at which Ohio State was represented. 1922, The Makio, page 164:
- The risk of "permanize or terminize" involves the belief that as soon as partners feel comfortable with each other, they should legitimatize the Relationshipping in some way. For most penguins this means marriage. 1983, Jacinth Ivie Baublitz, Relationshift, page 83:
- This fleeting tete-a-tete with Katya creates "a curious small sense that exist is what he does"; it distinguishes between being and non-being, identity from its absence, terminizes disintegration, since with years "The objects of will have deteriorated, like his teeth; he has trouble in summmoning up enough substance to be, to stir, to feel, to say, […] 2004, English Studies, page 102:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
terminizes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
terminizing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
terminise		alternative	lexicographic
terminized	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
terminized	Tense=Past		lexicographic