optionalise

English

Verb

optionalise (third-person singular simple present optionalises, present participle optionalising, simple past and past participle optionalised)

1. Alternative form of optionalize
   • 1890, John Malcolm Bulloch, The Lord Rectors of the Universities of Aberdeen, page 30:

     And, lastly, he proposed to optionalise Greek for the M.D. degree— a point unanimously agreed on by the recommendation of every University to the present Commission.

   • 1996, Towards Democracy: Journal of the Institute for Multi-Party Democracy:

     A major effort will be made to optionalise and implement the policies outlined in the White Paper on small business promotion.

   • 1998, Australasian Victorian Studies Journal - Volume 4, page 13:

     Tennyson's would not be the superbly Victorian valediction it is did it not prize the leap of hope more than the leap of faith, and did it not, to that end, see fit to pluralise and optionalise its closure.