Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make peculiar; set apart: appropriate. … Also spelled
peculiarise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To make peculiar; to set apart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
peculiar ; to set apart or assign as an exclusive possession.
Etymologies
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peculiar + -ize
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Examples
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There is no doubt that the primary purpose of Circumcision was to peculiarize the Jews by an indelible visible sign; and it was as necessary that Jewish infants should be known to be Jews as Jewish men.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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