taxonify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To categorize.
Example Sentences
- "One can only regret the disappearance of a treatise on acting by Theophrastus which would doubtless have taxonified all of the […]"
- "In this framework, systems are represented using a codesign request-resource model coupled with software architectures taxonified by [9] ^([sic])."
- "A thanatologist is a designated thinker about death. He spells out the obvious and the not-so-obvious; he classifies; he taxonifies; he divides and subdivides; he takes a long view by stepping outside his home and outside his church to look from intellectual space free of terrestrial gravity and the baggage of everyday thought."
- "“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."
- "Wilkins prefers taxonifying types of communication, so he notes that stenography can be either private or public."
Etymology
From taxon + -ify.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
taxonifies (present, singular)
taxonifying (participle, present)
taxonified (participle, past)
taxonified (past)