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.
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- verb economics to transform an
ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into acardinal one (where distance matters). - verb To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
Etymologies
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cardinal + -ize
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madmouth commented on the word cardinalize
incarnadine
May 21, 2009