Pemmicanize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.

    "The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind."

  2. 2
    To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.

    "His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier."

Example

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"The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind."

Etymology

From pemmican + -ize.

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