semanticizev.

1921 H. E. Palmer Princ. Lang.-study xii. 133 There are four ways..of furnishing a student with the meaning of given foreign units... These four methods or modes of ‘semanticizing’ a unit are here given in order.

1999 W. Hüllen Eng. Dict., 800–1700 i. 12 Dictionaries which semanticized a Latin lexeme with a vernacular one.

2008 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 128 74 One need not attempt to explain the literal meaning of ‘Baitondi’. Though it is not impossible to semanticize it, it is only a proper noun.

1953 Language 29 402 In spite of current orthography.., which makes it look like a binom, it [sc. a Chinese word] was semanticized in very early times.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Dec. 1631/2 A straightforward attribution of meanings to individual vowels and consonants strikes me as unwarranted... Lotman appears to be over-eager to semanticize, in his own words, ‘any element on the parole level’.

2009 C. Noland Agency & Embodiment i. 29 A gesture can be semanticized, made to mean something for a particular culture.

1949 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 25 July 8/3 Mrs. Jacobs' putting-on-ice method sounds like a semanticized version of the old ‘count ten before you say anything’ philosophy.

1964 P. Meadows in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 450 The straitlaced purity of semanticized communication-theory.

1999 Perspectives New Music 37 30 The binary division between abstract and semanticized music.

1933 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 17 577 Training in semanticizing, that is, the mental fixation of meanings.

1980 E. O. Wilson Sociobiology (abridged ed.) x. 110/1 At one conceivable extreme of the semanticizing process [of animal communication], only the response evolves.

1998 A. Thiher in J. Quandt Robert Bresson 224 Perhaps it [sc. the narrative project] inevitably derives its semanticizing capacity in turn from the cultural context that gives rise to it.

2005 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 18 July 3 White House officials are now practiced hands in..Clinton-style semanticizing.