mathematizev.
/ˈmaθ(ə)mətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈmæθ(ə)məˌtaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To reason mathematically; to perform mathematical calculations; to adopt a mathematical approach.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > mathematize [verb (intransitive)]
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mathematicize1875
arithmetize1937
1719 Free-thinker III. 95 Persons, of a Profession very foreign to this Science, have been advised by very great Men to Mathematize a little, in order to acquire an habitual Caution in other Studies.
1833 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 365 If, e.g., you feel disposed to mathematise.
1986 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 May 603/2 While some of his contemporaries, like Ampère, mathematized, Faraday, at the most, geometrized.
2. transitive. To consider or treat mathematically; to reduce to mathematical terms.
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1894 Univ. Extension Jrnl. 1 Oct. 11/2 The author has carefully avoided the error of needlessly mathematising what can be better described in words.
1966 Punch 28 Sept. 492/3 To mathematise the novel is fatal.
1993 Guardian Weekly 24 Oct. 21/1 Keynes resisted attempts to be over-precise and mathematise his insights.
1998 G. Vidal Smithsonian Inst. i. 12 As usual, when puzzled, he began to mathematize the problem.
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ˈmathematized adj.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > considered or treated mathematically
mathematicized1834
mathematized1939
1939 Philos. Rev. 48 123 The processes of history..cannot be reduced to any mathematized or logicized metaphysic, based on physical science.
1992 18th-cent. Stud. 26 215 Optics after Newton was to a considerable extent a mathematized discipline.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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