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grammaticize, v.|grəˈmætɪsaɪz|
[f. grammatic + -ize.]
1. trans. To render grammatical; to reduce to grammatical rules.
1780Johnson in Boswell lxx. (1848) 660/1, I always said, Shakspeare had Latin enough to grammaticize his English. 1811Nichols Fuller's Worthies, Wales II. 561 note, This was the very first attempt to embody, to arrange, or to grammaticize this language. 1837J. E. Murray Summer in Pyrenées I. 42 Prior to the period when Democritus grammaticised the Latin language.
2. intr. To discuss grammatical points.
1673Bp. Ward Apol. Myst. Gosp. 44 Gramaticizing pedantically, and criticising spuriously, upon a few Greek Particles. |