terminize

English

Etymology 1

term +‎ -n- +‎ -ize

Verb

terminize (third-person singular simple present terminizes, present participle terminizing, simple past and past participle terminized)

1. (linguistics) To make a term for.
   • 1908, A Calendar of Invention and Discovery, page 23:

     This was terminized polarization of light.

   • 1965, Seminar on Technical and Scientific Translation, 15-17 April 1965:

     Hence , ushmā (or ushnatā) is an expressive equivalent for temperature. I do not know why the Central Hindi Directorate has terminized heat as ushmā, and temperature as tapa, thereby interchanging the cause and effect.

   • 1967, Systematics - Volume 5, page 24:

     To terminize this multi-ordinal system, we cannot apply any existing words. Limitations of present terminology were discussed at the beginning of this article. "Darwinism", or even "pan-Darwinism", for example, would connote fecundity, combat, genes, and other qualities.

   • 1999, Linguistica Pragensia - Issue 2, page 28:

     On account of its inherent ambiguity (and the resulting inconsistency of its application) and negative associations, it is a label which it is hardly possible or useful to terminize.

Etymology 2

terminal +‎ -ize

Alternative forms

• terminise

Verb

terminize (third-person singular simple present terminizes, present participle terminizing, simple past and past participle terminized)

1. (rare) To make terminal; to end or terminate.
   • 1922, The Makio, page 164:

     A movement for a nationalization of Senior girls' honorary societies terminized in a convention held in Syracuse, New York, February 15 and 16, 1918, at which Ohio State was represented.

   • 1976, Georgiana Peacher, Mary Stuart's Ravishment Descending Time, page 57:

     Was it not criminal to terminize appearances of multiple savants into terminal categorization, cast visionists in abattoirs called friendship rests?

   • 1983, Jacinth Ivie Baublitz, Relationshift, page 83:

     The risk of "permanize or terminize" involves the belief that as soon as partners feel comfortable with each other, they should legitimatize the Relationshipping in some way. For most penguins this means marriage.

   • 2004, English Studies, page 102:

     This fleeting tete-a-tete with Katya creates "a curious small sense that exist is what he does"; it distinguishes between being and non-being, identity from its absence, terminizes disintegration, since with years "The objects of will have deteriorated, like his teeth; he has trouble in summmoning up enough substance to be, to stir, to feel, to say, […]