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单词 orientize
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orientizev.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: orient n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < orient n. + -ize suffix. Compare earlier orient v.
Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. In Coleridge: to maximize the negative electrical charge of.
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a1826 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1980) I. 578 Smelling..is equally metallöid but S.W. = azot occidentized, as the Hearing is under the potenziation of the N.E. i.e. Zωophyte orientized... I use occidentized for the tension or ammaximation of the positive pole of Electricity..; and orientized..for the Negative Pole.
2. transitive. = orient v. 1b.
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the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > face a direction > cause to face a direction > cause to face east
orient1728
orientate1848
orientize1881
1881 G. F. Chambers Smyth's Cycle Celestial Objects (ed. 2) 35 They [sc. the Arabians] looked to Polaris, and could thereby readily orientize themselves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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