cardinalize

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English

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Etymology

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From cardinal +‎ -ize.

Verb

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cardinalize (third-person singular simple present cardinalizes, present participle cardinalizing, simple past and past participle cardinalized)

  1. (economics) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
  2. To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
    • 1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book:
      It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all
  3. (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.

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