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cardinalize (三人称単数 現在形 cardinalizes, 現在分詞 cardinalizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 cardinalized)

1. (economics) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
2. To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
   • 1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book:

     It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all

3. (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
   • 1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, transl., The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], OCLC 503530; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], OCLC 977536467, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling