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journalize

American  
[jur-nl-ahyz] / ˈdʒɜr nlˌaɪz /
especially British, journalise

verb (used with object)

journalized, journalizing
  1. to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.

  2. to enter or record in a journal.

  3. (in double-entry bookkeeping) to enter in a journal, preparatory to posting to the ledger.


verb (used without object)

journalized, journalizing
  1. to keep or make entries in a journal.

journalize British  
/ ˈdʒɜːnəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. to record (daily events) in a journal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of journalize

First recorded in 1760–70; journal + -ize


Example Sentences

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Lovecraft’s language “fails” only insofar as the narrators fail to get into words, to journalize, some experience that simply cannot be fully available to the meager human senses and mind.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013

I have not the heart to journalize tonight, everything seems so sad and strange.

From The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

I cannot journalize, cannot arrange my ideas into order.

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I feel singularly indolent, and indisposed to journalize this evening.

From The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

Little by little he learned to invoice and journalize and "post in the ledger" and all the rest of the detail of bookkeeping.

From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will be noticed that in this fragment the scene is at first laid in New England, whereas the journalized sketch opened the drama in England.

From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

He had no information more than he had given, but he bravely journalized, "Mr. Glover and everybody, ma'am."

From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

Henry the Morgue had started his journalizing in a small way.

From Time Magazine Archive

His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalizing his agricultural proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. Martin

We have made a strange beginning of this journalizing experiment.

From The Legacy of Cain by Wilkie Collins

Throughout M. Hallays' volume he acknowledges the courtesy of German officials, a fact to which I had borne testimony when first journalizing my own experiences.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Thus they are excellent in conversation, lectures, and journalizing.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

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