axiomatizev.
/ˈaksɪəmətʌɪz/ 1. intransitive. To make an axiom or axioms.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > speak in maxims [verb (intransitive)]
to sentence it1628
saw1648
aphorize1669
axiomatize1716
apophthegmatize1818
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. i. 12 Here, the same excellent Historian Axiomatize's very opportunely.
2. transitive. To render axiomatic, to give an axiomatic form to; to reduce to a system of axioms.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > render axiomatic [verb (transitive)]
axiomatize1934
1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1943 Mind 52 221 Woodger's theory is axiomatised and therefore it presents us with the answer.
1956 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1955 97 The attempts that are made to axiomatize linguistics.
1959 K. R. Popper Logic of Sci. Discov. iii. 71 A so-called ‘axiomatized system’.
Derivatives
ˌaxiomatiˈzation n.
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1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 283 The Russell-Whitehead axiomatization of logic is a practical convenience.
1956 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1955 94 Even in mathematics the possibilities of complete axiomatization have been over-estimated.
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