† terminizingn.
Obsolete. rare.
The action of supplying with terms; to providing of a nomenclature for a particular group of objects, area of study, etc. Cf. later terminize v.
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1899 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 19 Aug. 1221 The adoption [in French] of so many English words, a condition that is paralleled in the terminizing of sports, such as football and bicycling, which crossed the Channel southward.
1913 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 274 Think of the number of conceptions that owe their present definiteness in our minds to the felicitous terminizing of Ralph Abercromby!
1918 Sci. Amer. 3 Aug. 84/3 The art of terminizing is not an easy one.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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