pemmicanize
pemmicanize verb: to make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
Verb
pemmicanize (third-person singular simple present pemmicanizes, present participle pemmicanizing, simple past and past participle pemmicanized)
- To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
- The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind.1887, Canada. Parliament. Senate, Journals of the Senate of Canada, page 387
- For coal-tar-dyed hard candies and pemmicanized oranges I gave the jumping Methodists a visit.1957, James Laughlin, New Directions in Prose and Poetry - Volume 16, page 226
- To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.
- His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier.1845 July 12, “The Late thomas Hood”, in The Living Age, volume 6, number 61, page 64
- It would therefore be unjust to M. Beer, since deceased, to allow my work to be supposed a full or faithful version of his successful attempt to pemmicanize tragic interest.1856, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, The Pilgrimage: And Other Poems, page 133
Examples of pemmicanize in a sentence
- The appeal or announcement must be "pemmicanized" into a command, a broad hint or a statement.1923, The Washington Newspaper:
- If David Graham Phillips could have pemmicanized his story of Susan Lenox, he would have produced a pamphlet that would have made revolution.1972, Holbrook Jackson, To-day - Volumes 5-6, page 79:
- I have of course inferred these questions from the surviving remains of very large numbers of thinkers in the early period of Greek philosophy, and 'pemmicanized' them into a tidy list.2005, Chris Emlyn-Jones, Plato, Trevor Saunders, Early Socratic Dialogues:
Forms of pemmicanize
| third-person singular present | pemmicanizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | pemmicanizing |
| past participle | pemmicanized |
| past | pemmicanized |
| alternative form | pemmicanise |
Origin of pemmicanize
From pemmican + -ize.
Words formed from pemmicanize
Questions about pemmicanize
- What does pemmicanize mean?
- Pemmicanize means to make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
- How do you use pemmicanize in a sentence?
- The appeal or announcement must be "pemmicanized" into a command, a broad hint or a statement.
- What part of speech is pemmicanize?
- Pemmicanize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of pemmicanize?
- The past tense of pemmicanize is pemmicanized.
Words near pemmicanize in the dictionary
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