Franklinize
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Franklin + -ize from Benjamin Franklin.
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[edit]Verb
[edit]Franklinize (third-person singular simple present Franklinizes, present participle Franklinizing, simple past and past participle Franklinized)
- To cause to be influenced by Benjamin Franklin and his political leadership.
- 1804, Joshua Larwood, No Gun Boats, or no Peace! A letter from Me to Myself, page 27:
- This Flotilla is the natural consequence of the Treaty defensive and offensive between la Fayetted France and Franklinized America; the same infernal inspiration that lopped the limb, would crush the carcase;
- 1866, Adam Gurowski, Diary ...: 1863-'64-'65, page 51:
- This makes up for many of your blunders ; not , however , for Fredericksburg , although you have been there McClellanized , and , above all , Franklinized .
- 1908, The Book News Monthly - Volume 27, page 89:
- I find that Philadelphia is really a Franklinized City, though the inhabitants do not know it. In the course of my prolonged visit I was able to see all of the physical monuments to Franklin, and was much depressed because the man does not seem to be much understood in his own city.
- To economize; to subject to extreme thrift.
- 1837, Reply to ... Dr. H. Cooke, page 17:
- Franklinize your good principle. Let your treasurer at term-day acknowledge the "principle" of Stipend-paying, but renounce its specific forms of Sovereigns and Bank-notes, —how do you like it?
- 1920, Electrical Construction and Maintenance - Volume 20, page 109:
- Government Savings Stamps will aid you to Franklinize.
- 1969, Harrie Sheridan Baketel, Medical Economics - Volume 46, page 224:
- Painting is another way I've found to Franklinize my income.
- 1982, Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The conspiracy and years of exile, 1805-1836, page 345:
- Often the meals were cold, the colonel having neither coal nor faggots to burn on his Franklinized hearth.
- To electrically stimulate.
- 1884, The Eclectic Medical Journal - Volume 44, page 136:
- The Franklinic currents of all degrees were supplied by a Goltz's friction machine; all the patients were left uninsulated and Franklinized during from five to fifteen minutes at a sitting, by the positive pole alone.
- 1903, The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic - Volume 90, page 154:
- The identical result has been obtained in faradic electrification of muscle tissue. Thirdly, there occurs in properly Franklinized subjects a notable increase in body weight.
- 1905, Archives of Physiological Therapy - Volumes 1-2, page 274:
- Capriati and Pisani have shown by the ergograph that fatigue shows itself much later in Franklinized muscles than in the normal state.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Franklin + -ize from Franklin Planner.
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[edit]Franklinize (third-person singular simple present Franklinizes, present participle Franklinizing, simple past and past participle Franklinized)
- (transitive) To arrange according to the Franklin Planner system of time management.
- 1988, Proceedings of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association:
- The design itself, the content of the plan, basically followed the outline that was presented at the seminar I attended. From that sketch we “Franklinized” the format, furnished the minimum requirements for the respective plan components.
- 1998, Michael F. Staley, Igniting the Leader Within:
- Let's Franklinize Your Schedule First, get a yellow pad and a pen.
- 2001, Simone P. Joyaux, Strategic Fund Development, page 268:
- For example: A few years ago, I became “franklinized,” and now I use the Franklin Planner to manage my time and hold people accountable.