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categize

categize is the alternative spelling of categise.

Meaning of categise

Verb

categise (third-person singular simple present categises, present participle categising, simple past and past participle categised)

  1. (rare) Thrash (verbally or physically).
    • Conceale your qualitie till we be private; if your parts be worthie of me, I will countenance you, if not, categize you.1580–1615, an unknown source, quoted in: Henk Gras, All Semblative a Woman’s Part? (1991), page 241

Forms of categize

third-person singular presentcategizes
present participlecategizing
past participlecategized
pastcategized

Questions about categize

What is categize the alternative spelling of?
Categize is the alternative spelling of categise.

Words near categize in the dictionary

  1. catechus
  2. catechutannic acid
  3. Cateel
  4. categise
  5. categised
  6. categize
  7. categized
  8. categorem
  9. categorematic
  10. categorematical
  11. categorematically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: categize (page history and authors); categise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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