motorizev.

1901 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 12 308 The word..seems to be motorized as soon as singly presented.

1901 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 12 309 This..has reference to readers who motorize.

1906 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 17 15 In the second type, motorization is repressed until the idea of the complete result arises, when both ten and digit are motorized together.

1913 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Motorize, to substitute motor-driven vehicles or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc.).

1916 W. B. Munro Princ. & Methods Municipal Admin. viii. 320 No municipality can hope to secure any great reduction in its annual fire loss merely by motorizing its fire apparatus.

1924 Public Opinion 8 Aug. 130/3 If one should dream of motorising the entire world on the scale of the United States.

1938 Foreign Service Feb. 9/1 In order to develop an adequate national defense the V.F.W...proposes generally to motorize all trains except combat trains, to motorize more than half of the artillery, and to substitute motor for animal transportation..wherever possible.

1948 Amer. Econ. Rev. 38 439 Between these two extreme conditions of having no gasoline ration and motorizing western Europe, is there a range within which the cartel scheme is most appropriate?

1981 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 41 581 Hence the necessity of selling motor buses to subsidiaries..whose interests were primarily in motorizing transit systems.

1990 What Satellite July 49/2 If the dish had been motorised then the elevation of the dish for the same offset angle would..have been that calculated minus the dish offset.