cardinalize

Definitions

1. to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
2. To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
3. To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
   poetic, rare, transitive

Examples

“It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have⟳ no temporal Possessions at all”

“the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling”

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