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geometrize, v.|dʒiːˈɒmɪtraɪz|
[f. geometr-y + -ize.]
a. intr. To work by geometrical methods.
b. trans. To form geometrically.
The word is almost exclusively employed with direct or indirect reference to Plato's phrase ἀεὶ γεωµετρεῖν τὸν θεόν. F. géométriser (rare) has the same origin.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 768 The said matter..refusing to be thus geometrized, that is to say, reduced to some finit and determinate limits. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 54 Some resemblance there is of this order in the Egges of some Butterflies..which..doth neatly declare how nature Geometrizeth. 1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2) sig. S6v/2 To geometrize, to play the Geometrician, to hold a due proportion, to observe order. 1680Boyle Produc. Chem. Princ. i. 49 Chrystalls..as if nature had at once affected variety in their figuration and yet confin'd herself to Geometrize. 1823De Quincey Lett. Educ. i. (1860) 15 Knowing that God geometrizes eternally. 1888G. Macdonald Elect Lady xi. 102 Do I meet God in my geometry? When I so much enjoy my Euclid, is it always God geometrizing to me? 1931E. H. W. Meyerstein Let. 28 Oct. (1959) 137 Even to try to geometrize faith was the inspiration of a Prophet.
Hence ˌgeometriˈzation; ˈgeometrized, ˌgeomeˈtrizing ppl. adjs.
1672Boyle Ess. Gems 71 As to the exquisite uniformity of Shape, which is so admir'd in Gems, and is thought to demonstrate their being form'd by a..Geometrizing Principle. 1832S. Turner in Fraser's Mag. VI. 332 Our earth, and its finely gravitating and geometrised system. 1927Observer 13 Nov. 15/5 Geometrisation is carried much further by Mr. Claude Flight in his Futurist essay entitled ‘Holland’..a jumble of curves, straight lines, and acute or obtuse angles. 1931Jrnl. Philos. XXVIII. 19 The real basis of Meyersonian causalism is in geometrization... He seems satisfied..if he can show relativity to be a ‘reduction’ of physics to geometry. 1933Antiquity VII. 365 The progressive geometrization to which their ceramic decoration is subject. |