scientize

English

Etymology

From scient(ific) +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

1. To make scientific. [from 19th c.]
   • 1996, Henry J. Perkinson, No safety in numbers, →ISBN:

     So far, I have argued that attempts in the 20th century to scientize the humanities wound up putting them at risk.

   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 94:

     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.

   • 2012, John-Michael Kuczynski, Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology, →ISBN, page 135:

     Husserl tried to scientize psychology.