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theorized

theorized is the simple past and past participle of theorize.

Meaning of theorize

Verb

theorize (third-person singular simple present theorizes, present participle theorizing, simple past and past participle theorized)

  1. (intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
    • Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257
  2. (intransitive) To speculate.

Phrases with theorized

Questions about theorized

What is theorized the simple past and past participle of?
Theorized is the simple past and past participle of theorize.

Words near theorized in the dictionary

  1. theorizability
  2. theorizable
  3. theorization
  4. theorizations
  5. theorize
  6. theorized
  7. theorizer
  8. theorizers
  9. theorizes
  10. theorizing
  11. theorizings

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