cardinalize
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cardinalize (third-person singular simple present cardinalizes, present participle cardinalizing, simple past and past participle cardinalized)
- (economics) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
- To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
- 1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book:
- It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all
- (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
- 1653, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, transl., The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling