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dichotomize, v.|daɪˈkɒtəmaɪz|
[f. Gr. διχότοµ-ος (see dichotomous) + -ize.]
1. trans. To divide into two parts or sections; esp. in reference to classification: cf. dichotomy 1 a.
1608–11Bp. Hall Epist. i. v, That great citie might well be dichotomized into cloysters and hospitals. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. i. (1647) 166 Not a city of note..which was not dichotomized into the sect of the Guelfes..and Gibellines. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. 139 The Four forementioned Forms of Atheism may be again Dichotomized..into such as [etc.]. 1866St. James's Mag. Oct. 367 So far as they were concerned the University was dichotomized in ‘Christ Church men’ and ‘squibs’.
†b. loosely. To divide (into several parts). Obs. (In first quot. humorously as a blunder.)
1631T. Powell Tom All Trades 144 Then dicotomize the whole portion of his wife into several shares. 1650Charleton Paradoxes 56 They againe dichotomize..the influxive spirit into the naturall, vitall, and animall. 1667Decay Chr. Piety ix. ⁋10 When they came to be dichotomiz'd, and canton'd out into curious aerial notions.
2. intr. (for refl.) To divide or become divided into two continuously; spec. used of the branching of a stem, root, leaf-vein, etc.: see dichotomous 2, dichotomy 3.
1835[see dichotomizing below]. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 652 Stem dichotomising and bearing..nearly simple erect branchlets. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. ii. iv. 406 The roots of Lycopodiaceæ are..the only ones known to dichotomise. 1884M. Boole in Jrnl. Educ. 1 Sept. 342 Elements which..tend to dichotomize into pairs of evils.
Hence diˈchotomizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; diˈchotomizer, one who dichotomizes.
1606Breton Sidney's Ourania, He has no fine Dichotomizing Wit. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribae 393 These two great Dichotomisers, being at odds with all others, and with themselues. 1639Fuller Holy War v. xv. (1647) 255 The Turks, who in the dichotomizing of the world fall under the Northern part. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xiii. 11 Surrounded by dichotomizing articulated organs. 1881G. Busk in Jrnl. Microsc. Soc. Jan. 5 Numerous, long, sparsely dichotomising, biserial branches. |