Meaning of pemmicanize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
2. To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.

Examples

“The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind.”

“For coal-tar-dyed hard candies and pemmicanized oranges I gave the jumping Methodists a visit.”

“Driver mentions (elem. 338-40) that most of the northwestern peoples ground "meat or fish" and added grease or berries, in other words, more or less pemmicanized it; which suggests they were not too fond of the mere dry powder.”

“His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier.”

“It would therefore be unjust to M. Beer, since deceased, to allow my work to be supposed a full or faithful version of his successful attempt to pemmicanize tragic interest.”

“There is no better way of achieving this desirable end than by the use of a slogan. The appeal or announcement must be "pemmicanized" into a command, a broad hint or a statement.”

“If David Graham Phillips could have pemmicanized his story of Susan Lenox, he would have produced a pamphlet that would have made revolution.”

“I have of course inferred these questions from the surviving remains of very large numbers of thinkers in the early period of Greek philosophy, and 'pemmicanized' them into a tidy list.”

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