Citations:categise

English citations of categize, categise, categized, and categised

Verb

• 1580–1615, Henk Gras, All Semblative a Woman’s Part?: Studies in the Staging of and Audience Response to Boy Actors in Sexual Disguise in the Elizabethan Theatre 1580–1615, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht (1991), page 241:

  Here, too, the service of the page can be suspected to have been sexual as well, “conceale your qualitie till we be private; if your parts be worthie of me, I will countenance you, if not, categize you” (ll. 10–13).

• 1921, ΔΕΣΜῸΣ of Delta Sigma Delta XXVII–XXVIII, page 481:

  Tough Luck! but Geo. so likes the sport that he is always overtrained, and, it is no wonder that he is categized as a professional by the A. A. U.

• 1962, The Philosopher, The Philosophical Society of England, volume XIII, page 49:

  Thus he categised the churches of his day as “The mills of Satan”, where men “in his synagogues worship Satan under the unalterable name”.

Noun

• 1821, Dorothea Primrose Campbell, Harley Radington: A Tale, volume I, chapter xxii, page 225:

  “Oh, sir, I’ll answer ten thousand, gin ye like till ask them, as carefully and pointedly as if I wir saying my categise.[”]