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objectify, v.|əbˈdʒɛktɪfaɪ|
[f. med.L. object-um object n. + -fy; after L. type *objectificāre.]
trans. To make into, or present as, an object, esp. as an object of sense; to render objective; to express in an external or concrete form.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xlii. (1870) II. 432 Consciousness..projects, as it were, this subjective phænomenon from itself,—views it at a distance,—in a word, objectifies it. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith i. ii. 70 In the latter [case] we objectify knowledge. 1880W. Wallace in Encycl. Brit. XI. 620/2 The theory of the mind as objectified in the institutions of law, the family, and the state, is discussed in the ‘Philosophy of Right’.
Hence obˈjectified ppl. a., obˈjectifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1868Contemp. Rev. VIII. 612 Morality..is a certain state of mind viewed in relation to certain objectified objects of a wider consciousness. 1883A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric 73 Considered as impressed..it is a phenomenon, and..becomes through the inner objectifying process worked up into an external object or event. 1892Traill in 19th Cent. Dec. 964 The objectifying faculty became..weakened. 1927A. N. Whitehead Symbolism (1928) i. 30 No actual thing is ‘objectified’ in its ‘formal’ completeness. 1931W. R. B. Gibson tr. Husserl's Ideas ii. ii. 122 The intentional object first becomes an apprehended object through a distinctively ‘objectifying’ turn of thought. 1940S. C. Pepper in P. A. Schilpp Philos. Santayana 229 The expression of moral and political greatness, however, is the satisfaction of interests quite different from objectified pleasure. 1977R. Williams Marxism & Lit. ii. ii. 86 Here society is the objectified (unconscious and unwilled) general process. |