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symptomatize, v.|ˈsɪmptəmətaɪz|
[f. Gr. συµπτωµατ-, σύµπτωµα symptom + -ize.]
trans. To be a symptom of; to characterize or indicate as a symptom.
1794Coleridge Lett., to Southey (1895) 81, I think of her..with unspeakable tenderness, with that inward melting away of soul that symptomatizes it. 1817― Biog. Lit. x. (1907) I. 131 The exhaustion had produced a cold fit of the ague which was symptomatized by indifference among the many, and a tendency to infidelity or scepticism in the educated classes. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 171/1 Amnesic aphasia is symptomatised very variously. 1880Ibid. XIII. 109/1 Senile insanity is symptomatized by dementia with frequent intercurrent attacks of mania. |