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GEN'ERALIZE, v.t. To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number.

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

1. To reduce to a genus.


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GEN'ERALIZE, v.t. To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number.

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

1. To reduce to a genus.

GENER-AL-IZE, v.t.

  1. To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. Nicholson.
  2. To reduce to a genus. Reid.

Gen"er*al*ize
  1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

    Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. W. Nicholson.

  2. To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
  3. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.

    When a fact is generalized, our discontent is quited, and we consider the generality itself as tantamount to an explanation. Sir W. Hamilton.

  4. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.

    A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. Coleridge.

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Generalize

GEN'ERALIZE, verb transitive To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number.

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

1. To reduce to a genus.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

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2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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