temporalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make temporal in time; place in time.
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to make concerned with the present life; secularize.
Etymology
Origin of temporalize
First recorded in 1820–30; temporal 1 + -ize
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The threshold fluctuations in the neurons always upset my mnemonic norm when I temporalize.
From The Ego Machine by Kuttner, Henry
I had to record so many languages before I could temporalize.
From The Ego Machine by Kuttner, Henry
My memory gives me enough trouble when I temporalize.
From The Ego Machine by Kuttner, Henry
Mine used to be, before I started temporalizing.
From The Ego Machine by Kuttner, Henry
"Of course my world is perfectly functional and functionally perfect, but I can't help finding temporalizing a fascina—" He broke off.
From The Ego Machine by Kuttner, Henry
And is not this last truly determined, when one unique function is attributed to it, not spatializing nor temporalizing, but characterizing?
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
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