objectize

English

Etymology

object +‎ -ize

Verb

objectize (third-person singular simple present objectizes, present participle objectizing, simple past and past participle objectized)

1. To turn into, or treat as, an object; to objectify.
   • 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Rest Fenner […], →OCLC:

     […] an indestructible power with two opposite and counteracting forces, which […] we may call the centrifugal and centripetal forces. The intelligence in the one tends to objectize itself, and in the other to know itself in the object.