Cardinalize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Cardinalize is a verb meaning To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
Meaning
To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
More Meanings
- (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
- (economics) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
Example Sentences
the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling
It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all
Word Forms
- cardinalizes
- cardinalizing
- cardinalized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cardinalise, quantize, majorize, uniformize, denumerate, scalarise.
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