grammarized
grammarized is the simple past and past participle of grammarize.
Meaning of grammarize
Verb
grammarize (third-person singular simple present grammarizes, present participle grammarizing, simple past and past participle grammarized)
- To create a grammar for (a language); to describe the grammar of.
- The grammar that the early grammarians knew was Latin grammar, and when they decided to grammarize English, they simply transposed the Latin structure and the Latin terminology and called it English grammar.1958, Paul Roberts, Understanding English, page 133
- To codify; to analyze and describe.
- To quote the old expression, "he gave the court and jury the raw material and let them 'grammarize' it to suit themselves."1884, Pioneer Collections - Volume 6, page 312
- To correct the grammar of (a body of speech or text).
- "What is the good of being a jim-dandy shape and a way-up cutter," he sadly thought one Sunday night, after he had been in bed for more than two hours vainly trying to go to sleep," if a fellow tangles his languidge all up, tumbles his words over one another, and can't grammarize what he says. I'm...1902, The American Tailor and Cutter - Volume 24, page 182
Questions about grammarized
- What is grammarized the simple past and past participle of?
- Grammarized is the simple past and past participle of grammarize.
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