organizev.

Brit.

/ˈɔːɡənʌɪz/,

/ˈɔːɡn̩ʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˈɔrɡəˌnaɪz/

Forms: late Middle English organyse, late Middle English– organize, 1500s– organise.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French organiser; Latin organizare.

Etymology: < Middle French organiser to give an organic structure to (14th cent.), to play the organ (14th cent.), to provide with organs (1510–20; French organiser ), and its etymon post-classical Latin organizare to accompany on the organ (c1090 in a British source; already in Vetus Latina in sense ‘to play the organ’), to arrange (c1190 in a British source), to provide with bodily organs or physical structure (13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin organum organ n.¹ + -izāre -ize suffix.With sense 4 compare German military slang organisieren, in the same sense (1914).

1. Chiefly Medicine and Biology.

a. transitive. To give organic structure or function to; to arrange or form into an organ or body; (Medicine) to convert into fibrous tissue. Usually in passive. Cf. organized adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > organism > [verb (transitive)]

organize?a1425

the world > life > the body > system > [verb (transitive)] > organ

organize?a1425

organ1652

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 11^v (MED) The brayne after þe lengþ haþ 3 ventriclez, And euery uentricle haþ 3 parties & in euery partie is organized [L. organizatur] one vertue.

a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. xxvii. f. 70 He [sc. the body] was organysed kendely only in power to receyve [sc. the soul] with in him.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lviii. 128 Euen as the soule doth organize the bodie, and giue vnto euery member thereof that substance, quantitie and shape which nature seeth most expedient.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 16 Some Cheese Mites we could see (as little..as a Mustard-seed) yet perfectly shap'd and organiz'd.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 319 Can a meer Vegetable become organiz'd to form it self into a flying Animal like a Duck?

1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 326 The thrombus when once formed either becomes organized or softens.

1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 7 In the perfect state they are highly organized.

1987 M. Monk Mammalian Devel. (BNC) 45 Anteriorly, the mesoderm becomes organized into the heart..which begins to contract rhythmically towards the end of the ninth day.

b. intransitive. To become organized; to assume an organized structure; to be converted into fibrous tissue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > organism > [verb (intransitive)]

organize1880

1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 147 The coagulum left behind undisturbed will presently organise.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 573 Despite the general tendency of brain cells and fibers to organize into clean-cut centers and tracts, a primitive condition persists in the reticular formation. This is a system of interlacing cells and fibers associated with the motor columns in the brain stem and anterior part of the spinal cord.

a. transitive. To arrange into a structured whole; to systematize; to put into a state of order; to arrange in an orderly manner, put in a particular place or order, tidy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > give structure to or organize

edifya1340

beset1413

reduce?a1425

institutea1538

compile1596

to deraign battle1596

modelize1600

skillc1610

organize1632

formalize1646

model1652

modulize1656

structure1664

economize1691

regiment1698

structurize1912

pattern1967

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 488 I Organize the Truth, you Allegate the Sense.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 5 Imposture, organized into a comprehensive and self-consistent whole.

1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper ii. 28 Some bundles of ancient and dirty straw, but these could not rightly be called beds, for they were not organized; they were kicked into a general pile.

1950 N.Y. Herald Tribune 6 Sept. 18/7 The correct method of organizing the bagel, the lox and cream cheese.

1984 E. Bourgoin Foreign Langs. & your Career (ed. 3) iv. 46 Special collections librarians collect and organize books, pamphlets, manuscripts.

1995 Alternative Press May 23/1 Some kind souls have started organizing the web into directories, also known as ‘meta-lists.’

b. transitive. To coordinate or manage the activities of (a group of people); to set up (an institution, enterprise, society, union or other political organization). Also (U.S.): spec. to provide (a government, state, or other administrative area) with fundamental, constitutive laws (now historical).

ΚΠ

1696 W. Stephens Acct. Growth of Deism in Eng. 31 Christians embodied, organized, clergy'd and modelled into a National Church.

1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1984) 247 They organized the government by the ordinance entitled a Constitution or Form of government.

1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 137 Their several orders,..so organized, and so acting,..they were the people of France.

1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris Pref. That Delatorian Cohort which Lord S—dm—th..has organized.

1834 J. Gurwood in Duke of Wellington Dispatches I. 41 Colonel Wellesley was long occupied in visiting the different provinces of the late conquest,..organizing the civil as well as the military establishments.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. viii. 171 No philosophising Christian ever organised or perpetuated a sect.

1868 Congress. Globe 22 July 4344/2 The Territory of Montana was organized.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §6. 86 A vast conspiracy was organized to place Stephen of Albemarle..upon the throne.

1903 J. Mitchell Organized Labor 431 American labor is still far from being organized.

1905 McClive's Mag. 24 346 Brayton..‘organized’ the Republican party.

1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. 23 I..organized lines of men to pass the stores from hand to hand down the steep bank.

1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) viii. 246 SEWA has organized women workers in many other crafts and trades too.

c. intransitive. To become coordinated, attain an orderly structure; spec. (of a political body, esp. a trade union) to form; to put in place an administrative structure; to plan organized action.

ΚΠ

1874 in C. Evans Hist. United Mine Workers of Amer. (1918) I. 52 Organize secretly if you are not permitted to do so publicly, but do organize.

1888 G. E. McNeill Labor Movement 81 The right of the workingmen to organize for protection.

1904 ‘M. Twain’ $30,000 Bequest (1906) 7 When we organize, we'll get three shares for one.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) II. 614/2 They may organize into complex structures such as plastids.

1977 J. Esherick in S. Kostof Architect 271 Working with students of the left who were organizing against Nazi and Fascist movements.

1986 B. Bragg There is Power in Union (song) in Talking with Taxman about Poetry (record sleeve) Who'll defend the workers who cannot organise When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?

d. transitive. To make arrangements or preparations for (an event or activity).

ΚΠ

1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City xii. 367 Mme. Mila was organising alfresco dinners in villa gardens.

1949 K. Oberg Terena & Caduveo of Southern Matto Grosso 65 This game consists of a number of boxing matches organized by someone in the village.

1963 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Aug. 28/1 There is an apocryphal story of an attempt to organize a cricket match between bad Dukes and good Dukes.

1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 3 Duke Ercole I d'Este organized some celebrated fêtes for the wedding of Lucrezia Borgia to his son Alfonso.

e. transitive. To provide for or make arrangements for (a person).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide for the wants or needs of

frameOE

providec1425

sorrow1481

stake1547

exhibit1601

sorry1601

consult1682

organize1892

1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant ii. 35 I'll get you organized in no time.

1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock iv. 72 ‘Where's Arthur?’ asked Bergen. ‘Gone off with a Waaf, I think. Jake's organised too.’

1959 ‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With viii. 122 There were going to be official complaints reaching the office in the morning about his activities... He felt he could organize himself out of most of it.

1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn v. 46 She was the kind of person who liked to keep herself to herself and must not be organized in any way.

1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 237 Marion didn't seem able to organize herself to come to Dunroamin.

f. transitive. colloquial. To take responsibility for providing or arranging; to fix up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > make preparations for (an event, etc.)

apparelc1314

purveya1382

prevenea1522

bespeak1582

providea1616

forespeak1659

formel1673

to set the stage1937

organize1952

to set up1965

1952 M. Laski Village ix. 141 Martha organized a scratch meal.

1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus ix. 179 We spent the rest of the day organizing a car to take us to Mexico City the following morning.

1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) iv. 53 You boys go and organise a bath while I see to the tea and try the telly out.

†3. transitive. Early Music. To accompany (a melody or plainsong) with an organum. Cf. organum n.¹ 4. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > church music > plainchant > [verb (transitive)] > sing the organum

organizea1699

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing specific part

bearc1405

second1595

treble1606

organizea1699

undertone1873

a1699 W. Temple Early Ess. (1930) 142 As of the same water issuing forth in divers formes if conducted through engines of divers shapes, of the same breath yielding several sounds if organized by different instruments, one high another low.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 132 About the time that the organ was received in churches and convents, the Gregorian chant began to be organized by voices, in the manner which was afterwards called Discant.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Organists Certain priests or clerks..generally four of them..sung in parts, i.e. they organized the melody; particularly that applied to the word Hallelujah, by adding to it other parts, and thence were called Organists of the Hallelujah.

4. transitive. colloquial (originally Military slang). To acquire deviously or illicitly. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by irregular means

miswinc1400

sorn1563

shirk1635

sponge1676

whizzle1787

mooch1865

honeyfuggle1905

hot-stuff1914

scrounge1917

hum1918

ponce1938

organize1941

bludge1944

1941 New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 Organise, to acquire illicitly. (A new R.A.F. equivalent for the last-war word ‘win’, meaning to ‘scrounge’).

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 12 Even the plugs in the washbasins are replaced. Why do people like to ‘organize’ those plugs? They just fade away..and have to be replaced; but what use they are to the lads who make them souvenirs, few know.

1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down iii. 73 Those Frenchwomen..were busy organizing some sausages from a reluctant butcher.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	organize
释义	organizev. Brit. /ˈɔːɡənʌɪz/, /ˈɔːɡn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɔrɡəˌnaɪz/ Forms: late Middle English organyse, late Middle English– organize, 1500s– organise. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French organiser; Latin organizare. Etymology: < Middle French organiser to give an organic structure to (14th cent.), to play the organ (14th cent.), to provide with organs (1510–20; French organiser ), and its etymon post-classical Latin organizare to accompany on the organ (c1090 in a British source; already in Vetus Latina in sense ‘to play the organ’), to arrange (c1190 in a British source), to provide with bodily organs or physical structure (13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin organum organ n.¹ + -izāre -ize suffix.With sense 4 compare German military slang organisieren, in the same sense (1914). 1. Chiefly Medicine and Biology. a. transitive. To give organic structure or function to; to arrange or form into an organ or body; (Medicine) to convert into fibrous tissue. Usually in passive. Cf. organized adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > [verb (transitive)] organize?a1425 the world > life > the body > system > [verb (transitive)] > organ organize?a1425 organ1652 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 11^v (MED) The brayne after þe lengþ haþ 3 ventriclez, And euery uentricle haþ 3 parties & in euery partie is organized [L. organizatur] one vertue. a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. xxvii. f. 70 He [sc. the body] was organysed kendely only in power to receyve [sc. the soul] with in him. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lviii. 128 Euen as the soule doth organize the bodie, and giue vnto euery member thereof that substance, quantitie and shape which nature seeth most expedient. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 16 Some Cheese Mites we could see (as little..as a Mustard-seed) yet perfectly shap'd and organiz'd. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 319 Can a meer Vegetable become organiz'd to form it self into a flying Animal like a Duck? 1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 326 The thrombus when once formed either becomes organized or softens. 1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 7 In the perfect state they are highly organized. 1987 M. Monk Mammalian Devel. (BNC) 45 Anteriorly, the mesoderm becomes organized into the heart..which begins to contract rhythmically towards the end of the ninth day. b. intransitive. To become organized; to assume an organized structure; to be converted into fibrous tissue. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > [verb (intransitive)] organize1880 1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 147 The coagulum left behind undisturbed will presently organise. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 573 Despite the general tendency of brain cells and fibers to organize into clean-cut centers and tracts, a primitive condition persists in the reticular formation. This is a system of interlacing cells and fibers associated with the motor columns in the brain stem and anterior part of the spinal cord. 2. a. transitive. To arrange into a structured whole; to systematize; to put into a state of order; to arrange in an orderly manner, put in a particular place or order, tidy. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > give structure to or organize edifya1340 beset1413 reduce?a1425 institutea1538 compile1596 to deraign battle1596 modelize1600 skillc1610 organize1632 formalize1646 model1652 modulize1656 structure1664 economize1691 regiment1698 structurize1912 pattern1967 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 488 I Organize the Truth, you Allegate the Sense. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 5 Imposture, organized into a comprehensive and self-consistent whole. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper ii. 28 Some bundles of ancient and dirty straw, but these could not rightly be called beds, for they were not organized; they were kicked into a general pile. 1950 N.Y. Herald Tribune 6 Sept. 18/7 The correct method of organizing the bagel, the lox and cream cheese. 1984 E. Bourgoin Foreign Langs. & your Career (ed. 3) iv. 46 Special collections librarians collect and organize books, pamphlets, manuscripts. 1995 Alternative Press May 23/1 Some kind souls have started organizing the web into directories, also known as ‘meta-lists.’ b. transitive. To coordinate or manage the activities of (a group of people); to set up (an institution, enterprise, society, union or other political organization). Also (U.S.): spec. to provide (a government, state, or other administrative area) with fundamental, constitutive laws (now historical). ΚΠ 1696 W. Stephens Acct. Growth of Deism in Eng. 31 Christians embodied, organized, clergy'd and modelled into a National Church. 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1984) 247 They organized the government by the ordinance entitled a Constitution or Form of government. 1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 137 Their several orders,..so organized, and so acting,..they were the people of France. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris Pref. That Delatorian Cohort which Lord S—dm—th..has organized. 1834 J. Gurwood in Duke of Wellington Dispatches I. 41 Colonel Wellesley was long occupied in visiting the different provinces of the late conquest,..organizing the civil as well as the military establishments. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. viii. 171 No philosophising Christian ever organised or perpetuated a sect. 1868 Congress. Globe 22 July 4344/2 The Territory of Montana was organized. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §6. 86 A vast conspiracy was organized to place Stephen of Albemarle..upon the throne. 1903 J. Mitchell Organized Labor 431 American labor is still far from being organized. 1905 McClive's Mag. 24 346 Brayton..‘organized’ the Republican party. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. 23 I..organized lines of men to pass the stores from hand to hand down the steep bank. 1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) viii. 246 SEWA has organized women workers in many other crafts and trades too. c. intransitive. To become coordinated, attain an orderly structure; spec. (of a political body, esp. a trade union) to form; to put in place an administrative structure; to plan organized action. ΚΠ 1874 in C. Evans Hist. United Mine Workers of Amer. (1918) I. 52 Organize secretly if you are not permitted to do so publicly, but do organize. 1888 G. E. McNeill Labor Movement 81 The right of the workingmen to organize for protection. 1904 ‘M. Twain’ $30,000 Bequest (1906) 7 When we organize, we'll get three shares for one. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) II. 614/2 They may organize into complex structures such as plastids. 1977 J. Esherick in S. Kostof Architect 271 Working with students of the left who were organizing against Nazi and Fascist movements. 1986 B. Bragg There is Power in Union (song) in Talking with Taxman about Poetry (record sleeve) Who'll defend the workers who cannot organise When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us? d. transitive. To make arrangements or preparations for (an event or activity). ΚΠ 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City xii. 367 Mme. Mila was organising alfresco dinners in villa gardens. 1949 K. Oberg Terena & Caduveo of Southern Matto Grosso 65 This game consists of a number of boxing matches organized by someone in the village. 1963 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Aug. 28/1 There is an apocryphal story of an attempt to organize a cricket match between bad Dukes and good Dukes. 1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 3 Duke Ercole I d'Este organized some celebrated fêtes for the wedding of Lucrezia Borgia to his son Alfonso. e. transitive. To provide for or make arrangements for (a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide for the wants or needs of frameOE providec1425 sorrow1481 stake1547 exhibit1601 sorry1601 consult1682 organize1892 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant ii. 35 I'll get you organized in no time. 1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock iv. 72 ‘Where's Arthur?’ asked Bergen. ‘Gone off with a Waaf, I think. Jake's organised too.’ 1959 ‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With viii. 122 There were going to be official complaints reaching the office in the morning about his activities... He felt he could organize himself out of most of it. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn v. 46 She was the kind of person who liked to keep herself to herself and must not be organized in any way. 1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 237 Marion didn't seem able to organize herself to come to Dunroamin. f. transitive. colloquial. To take responsibility for providing or arranging; to fix up. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > make preparations for (an event, etc.) apparelc1314 purveya1382 prevenea1522 bespeak1582 providea1616 forespeak1659 formel1673 to set the stage1937 organize1952 to set up1965 1952 M. Laski Village ix. 141 Martha organized a scratch meal. 1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus ix. 179 We spent the rest of the day organizing a car to take us to Mexico City the following morning. 1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) iv. 53 You boys go and organise a bath while I see to the tea and try the telly out. †3. transitive. Early Music. To accompany (a melody or plainsong) with an organum. Cf. organum n.¹ 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > plainchant > [verb (transitive)] > sing the organum organizea1699 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing specific part bearc1405 second1595 treble1606 organizea1699 undertone1873 a1699 W. Temple Early Ess. (1930) 142 As of the same water issuing forth in divers formes if conducted through engines of divers shapes, of the same breath yielding several sounds if organized by different instruments, one high another low. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 132 About the time that the organ was received in churches and convents, the Gregorian chant began to be organized by voices, in the manner which was afterwards called Discant. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Organists Certain priests or clerks..generally four of them..sung in parts, i.e. they organized the melody; particularly that applied to the word Hallelujah, by adding to it other parts, and thence were called Organists of the Hallelujah. 4. transitive. colloquial (originally Military slang). To acquire deviously or illicitly. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by irregular means miswinc1400 sorn1563 shirk1635 sponge1676 whizzle1787 mooch1865 honeyfuggle1905 hot-stuff1914 scrounge1917 hum1918 ponce1938 organize1941 bludge1944 1941 New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 Organise, to acquire illicitly. (A new R.A.F. equivalent for the last-war word ‘win’, meaning to ‘scrounge’). 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 12 Even the plugs in the washbasins are replaced. Why do people like to ‘organize’ those plugs? They just fade away..and have to be replaced; but what use they are to the lads who make them souvenirs, few know. 1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down iii. 73 Those Frenchwomen..were busy organizing some sausages from a reluctant butcher. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?a1425
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