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organize, v.|ˈɔːgənaɪz|
[ad. med.L. organizāre, -īzāre, f. organ-um organ n.1: see -ize. Cf. F. organiser, -izer (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. a. trans. To furnish with organs; to render organic; to give the structure and interdependence of parts which subserves vital processes; to form into a living being, or living tissue. Usually in pa. pple.; see also organized 1.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxv. 70 The body was organysed kyndely in power for to receyuen the sowle withynne hym. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lviii, Even as the soul doth organize the body, and give unto every member thereof that substance, quantity, and shape, which nature seeth most expedient. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 16 Some Cheese Mites we could see (as little..as a Mustard-seed) yet perfectly shap'd and organiz'd. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 319 Can a meer Vegetable become organiz'd to form it self into a flying Animal like a Duck? 1873T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 326 The thrombus when once formed either becomes organized or softens. 1874Lubbock Orig. & Met. Ins. i. 7 In the perfect state they are highly organized.
b. intr. for refl. To become organic, be formed into living tissue.
1880MacCormac Antisept. Surg. 147 The coagulum left behind undisturbed will presently organise.
2. a. gen. To form into a whole with mutually connected and dependent parts; to co-ordinate parts or elements so as to form a systematic whole (with either the whole or the parts as object); to give a definite and orderly structure to; to systematize; to frame and put into working order (an institution, enterprise, etc.); to arrange or ‘get up’ something involving united action.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 488, I Organize the Truth, you Allegate the Sense. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 231 The several orders..so organized and so acting..they were the people of France. 1799Wellington in Gurw. Desp. I. 42 Col. Wellesley was long occupied in..organizing the civil as well as the military establishments. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. ix. viii. (1864) V. 380 No philosophising Christian ever organised or perpetuated a sect. 1874Green Short Hist. ii. §6. 86 A vast conspiracy was organized to place Stephen of Albemarle..upon the throne. Mod. To organize a picnic, a procession, a disturbance, opposition.
b. intr. for refl.
1887Amer. Jrnl. Philol. VIII. 187 The men organize and, as Choros of old men, approach with hostile intent, but are worsted in the encounter that ensues. 1904‘Mark Twain’ $30,000 Bequest (1906) 7 When we organize, we'll get three shares for one. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. II. 614/2 They may organize into complex structures such as plastids. 1976Spare Rib Nov. 26/4 This is not the first time women have organised for peace.
c. trans. With a person as obj.: to provide for; to make (special) arrangements for. Also refl.
1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant ii. 35 I'll get you organized in no time. 1952M. Tripp Faith is Windsock iv. 72 ‘Where's Arthur?’ asked Bergen. ‘Gone off with a Waaf, I think. Jake's organised too.’ 1959‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With viii. 122 There were going to be official complaints reaching the office in the morning about his activities... He felt he could organize himself out of most of it. 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn v. 46 She was the kind of person who liked to keep herself to herself and must not be organized in any way.
d. trans. To arrange (personally); to take responsibility for providing (something); to ‘fix up’. colloq.
1952M. Laski Village ix. 141 Martha organized a scratch meal. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus ix. 179 We spent the rest of the day organizing a car to take us to Mexico City the following morning. 1976P. Hill Hunters v. 55 Got a big job fer you, son... Organize some sandwiches from the pub.
3. Mus. To sing the organum or accompaniment to a plain-song. (intr. and trans.)[= Med.L. organizāre, 13th c. in Du Cange ‘4 clericis qui organizabunt Alleluya, cuilibet 6 den’.] 1782Burney Hist. Mus. II. ii. 132 About the time that the organ was received in churches and convents, the Gregorian chant began to be organized by voices, in the manner which was afterwards called Discant. Ibid. 135 Hubald and Odo..as well as Guido, speak frequently, in their treatises, of organizing. 1819Pantologia, Organists, the old name applied to those Romish priests who organized, or sung in parts... Certain priests or clerks,..generally four of them,..sung in parts, i.e. they organized the melody; particularly that applied to the word Hallelujah, by adding to it other parts, and thence were called Organists of the Hallelujah.
4. trans. To acquire deviously or illicitly; to obtain cleverly (orig. Mil. slang). Cf. G. organisieren Mil. slang in same senses.
1941New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 Organise, to acquire illicitly. (A new R.A.F. equivalent for the last-war word ‘win’, meaning to ‘scrounge’). 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 12 Even the plugs in the washbasins are replaced. Why do people like to ‘organize’ those plugs? They just fade away..and have to be replaced; but what use they are to the lads who make them souvenirs, few know. 1957H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down ii. 53 The verb ‘to organize’ had been widely in use in the [Nazi] prisons and camps and simply meant to acquire what one needed by stealing, bamboozling, or any other means at one's disposal. Ibid. iii. 73 Those Frenchwomen..were busy organizing some sausages from a reluctant butcher.
Hence ˈorganizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Organizo, the organizing or drawing the body into his parts and members. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 11 The feudal system was still the organizing principle of the nation. 1861Stanley East. Ch. i. 43 The organising centralising tendency which prevailed in the West. 1865Mill in Evening Star 10 July, Mr. Hare's was the most practical and organising head that he knew. 1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 131 The first step towards harmony was to allow the organizing voices to have a choice of intervals. 1880E. H. Donkin in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 324 A rude style of part-singing, called ‘organising’, had been known for centuries before the Reformation. |