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1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iv. ii. 5 In morall actions, modus adjectus is principium individuationis, and nothing else, doth individualize a morall action.

1796 H. R. Reynolds Addr. to Ladies 59 Add this kind of notion to the rest of your romance..; it will nobly individualize and concentrate your feelings.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge in Fraser's Mag. (1835) 12 494/2 Life, in the sense here meant..may be defined—‘tendency to individualise’.

1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 24 To have a conception of a horse..I must also be able to combine those attributes in a representative image; that is, to individualize them.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters i. 5 The inferior agents are individualised with a minuteness of surpassing truth to nature.

1930 Publishers' Weekly 31 May 2732/2 The books all to be individualized in appearance and fully promoted.

1965 Keystone Folklore Q. 10 124 There are two fascinating details here... They are not enough to individualize the slain knight, of course; at any time you choose there must be plenty of knights with both.

1990 Brain 113 556 The capacity to provide semantic information about a person requires that the face be individualized and recognized as that of a familiar individual.

1655 S. Hunton King of Kings 100 Many..men, worthy of honour, which I may not here individualize.

1784 R. Labutte French Gram. viii. 110 A time and manner of being individualised by a genitive.

1809 Ann. Reg. 1807 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 251/2 Without individualizing any, it was a virtual declaration of hostility against every neutral power.

1823 Examiner 12 Oct. 658/2 We may revert to this subject, in which case we shall individualize a little more than we have now done.

1868 N. Amer. Rev. July 341 There are certain external relations..which serve to individualize still further the action of the verb, or limit to a particular time, place, &c.

1965 R. P. Stockwell et al. Grammatical Struct. Eng. & Spanish iv. 69 Instead of mere identification, the predicate then serves to individualize.

1842 Homœopathic Examiner 3 19/1 If every malady is an individual case, we must individualize the treatment.

1897 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Tribune 23 Mar. 7/3 As punishment is individualized by man, so is it by God.

1962 J. Money Reading Disability i. 17 Reading tuition is individualized, scholastically and psychotherapeutically, as much as economics permit.

2002 P. Kotler et al. Marketing Moves i. 18 By putting this information into their customer databases..they are better positioned to target individual customers and..thus to individualize their messages.

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 95 I a little grudged the tracts [of land] that have been filched away, so to speak, and individualized by thriving citizens.

1870 N. Brit. Rev. July 482 In France the partition of commons is scarcely admitted in any case: where it is judged proper to individualize the land,..it is divided into lots.

1935 F. M. Keesing in J. Hobbs Hawaii p. x Many administrations..have attempted to ‘individualize’ the land still remaining in native hands.

1946 W. A. Brophy in E. C. McDonagh & E. S. Richards Ethnic Relations in U.S. ix. 211 Most Indian land today was tribal land to begin with, and the trusteeship which the Government exercised over the tribe and its possessions was extended to the individual when the land was individualized.

2001 D. R. M. Beck in S. Lobo & K. Peters Amer. Indians & Urban Experience ii. x. 157 During these years the Menominee Forest was under threat of allotment, a nationally enacted federal policy to individualize land holdings.

c1813 Coleridge's Lect. 1808–19 on Lit. (1987) I. 574 Sh[akespeare] had virtually surveyed all the great component powers & Impulses of Human Nature—seen that the different combinations and subordinations were the individualizers of Men.

1953 Reading Teacher 7 7/2 Are we sometimes trying to make reading the great leveler instead of the great individualizer?

2001 Gallup Managem. Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 June Individualizers recognize intuitively that each customer has different needs and interests, and they respond to each customer on the basis of his or her individuality.