categise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Thrash (verbally or physically).
Example Sentences
- "Conceale your qualitie till we be private; if your parts be worthie of me, I will countenance you, if not, categize you."
- "Thus he categised the churches of his day as “The mills of Satan”, where men “in his synagogues worship Satan under the unalterable name”."
- "“Oh, sir, I’ll answer ten thousand, gin ye like till ask them, as carefully and pointedly as if I wir saying my categise.”"
Etymology
First attested around the turn of the sixteenth century. The origin is uncertain; derivation is perhaps from the Ancient Greek καταιγίζω (kataigízō, “I rush down like a storm”), from καταιγίς (kataigís, “a storm descending from above”, figuratively “battle”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: καταιγίζω
Usage
Inflected Forms
categises (present, singular)
categising (participle, present)
categised (participle, past)
categised (past)
categize (alternative)