schematizev.
/ˈskiːmətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈskiməˌtaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To assume new forms or shapes. Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > have (specific) shape [verb (intransitive)] > assume definite shape > new or different
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re-form1827
transfigure1840
metamorphosize1967
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. I have observ'd thy Nature-scoffing Art Wherewith th'ast Schematiz'd in every part.
2. transitive. To formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula.
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the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > reduce to a scheme
schematizea1866
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a1866 J. Grote in Jrnl. Philol. (1872) 4 56 The phonism of one language differs from that of another in, 1st. The different radical phones used in it. 2nd. The different distribution of these among the noems, and 3rd. The different laws and ways in which the phones are schematized.
1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 84 If the Benjingo ideas were to be schematised you see that they might lead to prodigious consequences.
1886 J. B. Mayor Eng. Metre vii. 117 The refrain..(thus schematized ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯).
1913 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God (1917) 293 When we do try to schematize the fact [sc. that there can be no barrier between the finite consciousness and the Being in which its existence is rooted] for ourselves, we either eliminate the characteristics of selfhood..or..lose hold of the creative unity.
1954 Circulation X. 14/2 These reactions which seem to be enzymatic transformations may be schematized as follows.
3. To give conventional form to.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [verb (transitive)] > artistic treatment or style > types of
chargea1806
daguerreotype1839
transfer1839
conventionalize1854
archaize1906
schematize1908
1908 A. Lang Orig. Relig. 4 The tendency of representative art to ‘schematise’ its designs into what seem mere geometrical patterns.
4. Kantian Philosophy. To apply the categories, by means of schemata, to the data of sense-perception.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [verb (transitive)] > elements of Kantian philosophy
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envisage1851
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 176 The notion of substance is said to be schematised, when it is not conceived of absolutely as a self-subsisting thing, but as one which persists in time.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. x. 407 To ask how the categories are schematised, is simply to ask how they are applied to the form of inner sense, that through it they may be applied to the matter of all sense.
Derivatives
ˈschematized adj.
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the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > of or relating to a system > relating to or founded on a scheme > reduced to a scheme
schematized1893
1893 W. G. Collingwood Life & Work J. Ruskin I. 96 The details of schematised Aristotelianism.
1946 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. 109 The whole world of events in time is thus a schematized representation of the world of logical or conceptual relations.
ˈschematizing adj. and n.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > reduction to a scheme
schematizing1828
schematization1904
the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > that puts in order > reducing to order > reducing to a system
systematizing1792
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systemizing1832
1828 De Quincey in Blackwood's Mag. 24 900 To say, therefore, that a man is a great thinker..is but another expression for saying that he has a schematizing..understanding.
1903 Hibbert Jrnl. Mar. 603 The charge of schematising may be brought with more justice against M. Loisy himself.
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