lexiconizev.
/ˈlɛksɪkənʌɪz/ a. intransitive. To compile a lexicon.
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lexiconize1892
1892 G. Meredith Let. 3 Jan. (1970) II. 1056 Your Lexiconizing is clever and I cannot go beyond it.
b. transitive. To reduce or make into (the form of) a lexicon.
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1908 F. Galton Mem. my Life 254 They admit of being so classified or ‘lexiconised’, that it would be possible for him to tell..whether a similar set had been already registered.
1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 49 Galton spent about eight years on this work... It was only in the last of these, the Finger-Print Directory, published in 1895, that the process of ‘lexiconizing’ or indexing the material was completed.
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