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ˈperiodize, v.
[f. period n. + -ize.]
†1. trans. To bring to a period or end; to terminate. Obs.
1611Sir W. Mure Elegie 22 The frouning faits, alwayes my fatall foes, Nocht bot our mynds permits to meet, to periodize our woes. 1658Cokaine Obstinate Lady i. ii, Stir not then thou glorious Fabrick of the heavens, And periodize the Musick of the spheres. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 98 For periodizing, or putting an end..to the..altercations, disputations and dubitations of..Mystic Theologie.
2. To divide (a portion of time) into periods; to assign (historical and cultural events) to specified periods. Cf. prec. So (rare) ˈperiodizer, one who periodizes in this way; ˈperiodizing vbl. n.
a1943R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) ii. 54, I will take a single example of medieval periodizing. In the twelfth century Joachim of Floris divided history into three periods. 1959Listener 20 Aug. 291/2 The fifteenth century has been a favourite hunting ground for the periodizers of history. 1965K. Charlton Educ. Renaissance Eng. ii. 40 The dangers of periodizing history and of ignoring the carry-over of medieval ideas alongside and within humanistic thought have already been mentioned. 1970B. Brewster tr. Althusser & Balibar's Reading Capital (1975) ii. iv. 103 This is antipodal to the empirically visible history in which the time of all histories is the simple time of continuity and in which the ‘content’ is the vacuity of events that occur in it which one later tries to determine with dividing procedures in order to ‘periodize’ that continuity. 1972Language XLVIII. 423 Lyons' manner of ‘periodizing’ Chomsky's intellectual history has its justification, but a somewhat different distribution of emphasis might be fairer to the histories of both linguistics and rationalism. 1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 194/2 The bulk of the text summarizes and criticizes the theories for Bode's law in the context of an overall view of the origin of the solar system, an event that Nieto broadly periodizes along the lines of Sir Fred Hoyle's nebular-plus-magnetic theory. |