grammarize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To create a grammar for (a language); to describe the grammar of.
Example Sentences
- "The grammar that the early grammarians knew was Latin grammar, and when they decided to grammarize English, they simply transposed the Latin structure and the Latin terminology and called it English grammar."
- "But if he is himself a speaker of the language he proposes to grammarize, he doesn't generally need the corpus to tell him what are sentences of the language and what are not."
- "But all their efforts to "grammarize" Chinese have proved fruitless. The reason is not that Chinese itself has no grammar but that a language should be idiomatic rather than grammatical, or rather, idiomatic regardless of grammar."
- "Mina remains, however, a spoken dialectical variant despite a recent attempt by an American Baptist missionary organization to orthographize and grammarize via a translation of the Christian New Testament."
- "To quote the old expression, "he gave the court and jury the raw material and let them 'grammarize' it to suit themselves.""
- "Moreover, seen in retrospect from the first line of quatrain 3, it would seem that "But reckening time" embodies a catch in the voice as if the poet had been unable to "grammarize" his fears properly, thereby involving him in a syntactic anacoluthon."
Etymology
From grammar + -ize.