Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make a cardinal of.
  • To make cardinal in color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To exalt to the office of a cardinal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

Etymologies

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cardinal +‎ -ize

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