lexiconise

English

Verb

lexiconise (third-person singular simple present lexiconises, present participle lexiconising, simple past and past participle lexiconised)

1. Alternative form of lexiconize
   • 1907, The British Journal of Photography - Volume 54, page 921:

     It will be shown that it is easy to “lexiconise" portraits by arranging the measurements between a few pairs of these points in numerical order, on the same principle that words are lexiconised in dictionaries in alphabetical order, and to define facial peculiarities with greater exactness than might have been expected.

   • 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.

   • 1953, The Medical Officer - Volume 90, page 33:

     With immense patience he " lexiconises " finger-prints and studies the life history of identical terms.