neologizev.

1813 T. Jefferson Let. 16 Aug. in Writings (1984) 1300 Necessity obliges us to neologize.

1840 T. De Quincey Theory Greek Trag. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 146/1 At every step of the introvolution, (to neologise a little in a case justifying a neologism).

1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 4/2 Prone to take strange liberties with the language, and to neologise.

1977 Hudson Rev. 30 177 Oh, flubbery flubs, I say, neologizing.

1997 R. W. McConchie Lexicography & Physicke 2 Conscious efforts to neologize or borrow have generally been made to meet a specific and immediate need.

1857 R. Watson Life Rev. J. Wesley 369 Those of the clergy who never preach the doctrines of the articles of their own Church..or those who follow some great names of the present day, and neologize as far as decency permits.

a1882 J. Tulloch in Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (1882) (at cited word) Dr. Candlish lived to neologize on his own account.

1942 J. G. Miller Unconsciousness Preface p. v Various terms have been invented..to distinguish and explain these different phenomena... The result of this neologizing, however, has not been increased clarity, but greater confusion.

1994 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 18 Apr. Initialese is usually a sign of laziness in neologizing, but sometimes shows imagination.