Definitions

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  • verb Alternative spelling of universalize.

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  • verb make universal

Etymologies

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universal +‎ -ise

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Examples

  • Moreover, the conceit does universalise the drama and themes of the show, I think, succeeding where Battlestar Galactica failed, to my mind, regardless of what its defendants say.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Reforming the faltering public distribution system, which it plans to universalise under the new bill, enhancing support for farmers, and improving storage and transport may go some way to reduce wastage and pave the way for long-term food security.

    India's food crisis has many ingredients 2011

  • Moreover, the conceit does universalise the drama and themes of the show, I think, succeeding where Battlestar Galactica failed, to my mind, regardless of what its defendants say.

    Kings Hal Duncan 2009

  • We can all tell a story, but some seem able to take any event and make a tale of it, to reach into their own minds and create realities, universalise emotions and themes, and weave them into a coherent whole that entertains and inspires others.

    Manifesto « Write Anything 2009

  • German philosophy — the tendency to universalise and idealise the I and consciousness.

    Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul 2008

  • "There is no better way of paying tribute to the great masters than to universalise their art, and make it accessible to the greatest number of people," the Prado's director, Miguel Zugaza, said.

    Prado and Google in Experimental Partnership Jan 2009

  • If he is a social scientist (economists notwithstanding), he would understand that the scientific method (esp. the aspects of experimentation, repeatability and tendency to universalise) as used in the natural sciences is of very limited utility when dealing with self-aware human agents inhabiting unimaginably complex and therefore infinitely context-rich social worlds, requiring very different methodologies.

    Good Will Twatsy. CC 2009

  • The political leadership was unable to construct the friction with the PLO (after a year of cease-fire in the northern area of Israel) as an existential danger, and thus to universalise it.

    Peace Movements in Israel. 2009

  • Conservative morality must see this as madness and an impossible attempt to rationally universalise the root of evil.

    How local government in Las Vegas and Clark County deals with the worst joblessness crisis in a generation 2009

  • There is a tendency to universalise in all thought; there is a humanising tendency in feeling.

    Bulk Thinking 2008

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