Cardinalize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
  2. 2
    To exalt to the office of a cardinal.

    "It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all"

  3. 3
    To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal. poetic, rare, transitive

    "the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling"

Example

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"It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all"

Etymology

From cardinal + -ize.

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