Meaning of cardinalize | Babel Free

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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