taxonify

taxonify verb: to categorize.

Verb

taxonify (third-person singular simple present taxonifies, present participle taxonifying, simple past and past participle taxonified)

To categorize.
- One can only regret the disappearance of a treatise on acting by Theophrastus which would doubtless have taxonified all of the […]1976, T Long, “Understanding comic action in Aristophanes”, in The Classical World
- In this framework, systems are represented using a codesign request-resource model coupled with software architectures taxonified by [9] ^([sic]).1997, 1997 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, page 264

“With the onset of the Age of Reason and science, the educated upper and middle classes in Britain began looking at society and finding ways to taxonify the poor,” Marshall says.2011 March 21, Matilda Battersby, “Street Cries: depictions of London's poor”, in Independent:
Wilkins prefers taxonifying types of communication, so he notes that stenography can be either private or public.2016, Katherine Ellison, A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals:

third-person singular present	taxonifies
present participle	taxonifying
past participle	taxonified
past	taxonified

From taxon + -ify.

What does taxonify mean?: Taxonify means to categorize.
How do you use taxonify in a sentence?: “With the onset of the Age of Reason and science, the educated upper and middle classes in Britain began looking at society and finding ways to taxonify the poor,” Marshall says.
What part of speech is taxonify?: Taxonify is a verb.
What is the past tense of taxonify?: The past tense of taxonify is taxonified.

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