ramify
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French ramifier, from Medieval Latin *ramificare (“to branch, ramify”), from Latin rāmus (“a branch”) + faciō (“do, make”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
ramify (third-person singular simple present ramifies, present participle ramifying, simple past and past participle ramified)
- To divide into branches or subdivisions.
- 1893, Henry Morris, Human Anatomy, page 648
- The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.
- 1893, Henry Morris, Human Anatomy, page 648
- (figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
- to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
- 2003, Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality, page 285
- My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field ramifies out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind.
Synonyms [edit]
- (divide into branches): branch
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to divide into branches
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(figuratively) to spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories
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External links [edit]
- ramify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ramify in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
