abnormalizev.

1849 Univercœlum 3 vi. 81/1 Mr. Davis, or rather, Mr. Davis out of himself—abnormalized, does not view the Scriptures in this light.

a1871 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 339 The toe-bone might have been abnormalised by therian..malady.

1895 Arena (Boston) Aug. App. p. vi The excessive use of alcohol, which abnormalizes (if I may so express it) man's entire being.

1907 Science 1 Nov. 593/2 If two images are seen, then the person has divided dominance or equidominance, and he is a patient, having confusions of mind and action which may cause accidents at any time, and which must decidedly abnormalize him in many ways.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 924/2 The psychoanalytic situation is an abnormal one, and necessarily abnormalizes.

1983 J. N. Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac 150 Late Victorian medical journal articles on ‘sexual perversion’ were one of the means used to discredit and abnormalize..those ‘passionate friendships’ between women.

2000 Spectator 11 Nov. 15/1 Al Gore managed to abnormalize his [campaign].

1890 Sat. Rev. 4 Jan. 16/1 The Romantic turned Realist, who tries to avoid Classicality and das Gemeine, not merely by individualizing, but by abnormalizing, if we may say so.

1930 Musical Q. 16 540 The verse and rime of language, the bounds wherein a painter frames his picture, the steps and figures of the dance—all these signify what might be termed an abnormalizing of the normal, a formal recognition of a realm of law remote from ‘natural’ life.

2002 W. D. Wright Black Hist. & Black Identity iv. 77 The eructing activity I wish to call de-ethicalizing and the investment activity I wish to call abnormalizing.