verticalise
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verticalise (third-person singular simple present verticalises, present participle verticalising, simple past and past participle verticalised)
- Alternative form of verticalize
- 1999, Gilbert Durand, The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary, page 154:
- Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.