Grammarize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To create a grammar for (a language); to describe the grammar of.
"The grammar that the early grammarians knew was Latin grammar, and when they decided to grammarize English, they simply transposed the Latin structure and the Latin terminology and called it English grammar."
- 2 To codify; to analyze and describe. broadly
"To quote the old expression, "he gave the court and jury the raw material and let them 'grammarize' it to suit themselves.""
- 3 To correct the grammar of (a body of speech or text). transitive
""What is the good of being a jim-dandy shape and a way-up cutter," he sadly thought one Sunday night, after he had been in bed for more than two hours vainly trying to go to sleep," if a fellow tangles his languidge all up, tumbles his words over one another, and can't grammarize what he says. I'm hungry for education.""
Example
More examples"The grammar that the early grammarians knew was Latin grammar, and when they decided to grammarize English, they simply transposed the Latin structure and the Latin terminology and called it English grammar."
Etymology
From grammar + -ize.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.