Scientify

Quick meaning: Scientify is a verb meaning (transitive) To make scientific; to subject to scientific rules.

Meaning

(transitive) To make scientific; to subject to scientific rules.

Example Sentences

I am aware it is not so flattering to scientify men into atoms, as if, with others, I were to mystify them into angels. But I can only regret to find it impossible to humour them in this serious matter, consistly with their own interest and that of truth.

Textbooks were written that portrayed Chinese medicine as a theoretical and practical whole, and they were taught in newly founded academies of so-called “traditional Chinese medicine,” […]. Needless to say, the academies were anything but traditional, striving valiantly to “scientify” the teachings of classics that often contradicted one another and themselves.

Word Forms

• scientifies
• scientifying
• scientified

Synonyms for scientify

Depending on context, synonyms include scientize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scientize, subjectify, science, exactify, mathematicize, technicalize.

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