grammarise

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grammarise (third-person singular simple present grammarises, present participle grammarising, simple past and past participle grammarised)

  1. Alternative form of grammarize
    • 1889, Joseph Parker, The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture:
      Is it possible to grammarise these words, vivisect them, to understand their Oriental allusion, and to escape their immediate and mortal application to ourselves?
    • 1909, Sir Francis Galton, Memories of My Life, page 173:
      This he did with no little grief, and so all attempt to lexiconise and grammarise the Hausa language was thrown back for many years, during which a knowledge of it would have been of material use in various British operations on the West Coast of Africa
    • 2017, David Crook, Ken Fogelman, Alan C. Kerckhoff, Going Comprehensive in England and Wales:
      Aspirations to 'grammarise' the comprehensives were again evident from the remarks of Education Committee members.