cardinalize

Verb

cardinalize (third-person singular simple present cardinalizes, present participle cardinalizing, simple past and past participle cardinalized)

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.
   • It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book
3. (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
   • the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick...