scientize

Verb

scientize (third-person singular simple present scientizes, present participle scientizing, simple past and past participle scientized)

1. (transitive) To make scientific.
   • So far, I have argued that attempts in the 20th century to scientize the humanities wound up putting them at risk.1996, Henry J. Perkinson, No safety in numbers, →ISBN
   • Eugenics is an early chapter in a long history of scientized prejudice in the United States, a story in which scientific evidence for racial, class, and gender hierarchies became popular and entered public discourse on a broad scale.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 94

   Synonyms:

   scientificize