franklinize

present singular third person franklinizes · participle present franklinizing · participle past franklinized · past franklinized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Franklinize.

   It is certain that most sensitive persons can be franklinized without discomfort and without fear, and without any unpleasant after-effects.

   1884, George Miller Beard, Sexual neurasthenia nervous exhaustion, page 229

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   The perspiration from the franklinized portions of skin was diminished in most cases, while it was increased over the portion not franklinized.

   1884, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

   There is no necessity to undress a franklinized patient, as the therapeutic effects of this excellent agent remain unchanged — a circumstance of practical importance in female cases.

   1885, George Henry Napheys, Modern Medical Therapeutics

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1. To cause to be influenced by Benjamin Franklin and his political leadership.

   This makes up for many of your blunders ; not , however , for Fredericksburg , although you have been there McClellanized , and , above all , Franklinized .

   1866, Adam Gurowski, Diary ...: 1863-'64-'65, page 51

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   This Flotilla is the natural consequence of the Treaty defensive and offensive between la Fayetted France and Franklinized America; the same infernal inspiration that lopped the limb, would crush the carcase;

   1804, Joshua Larwood, No Gun Boats, or no Peace! A letter from Me to Myself, page 27

   I find that Philadelphia is really a Franklinized City, though the inhabitants do not know it. In the course of my prolonged visit I was able to see all of the physical monuments to Franklin, and was much depressed because the man does not seem to be much understood in his own city.

   1908, The Book News Monthly - Volume 27, page 89

2. To economize; to subject to extreme thrift.

   Government Savings Stamps will aid you to Franklinize.

   1920, Electrical Construction and Maintenance - Volume 20, page 109

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   Franklinize your good principle. Let your treasurer at term-day acknowledge the "principle" of Stipend-paying, but renounce its specific forms of Sovereigns and Bank-notes, —how do you like it?

   1837, Reply to ... Dr. H. Cooke, page 17

   Painting is another way I've found to Franklinize my income.

   1969, Harrie Sheridan Baketel, Medical Economics - Volume 46, page 224

   Often the meals were cold, the colonel having neither coal nor faggots to burn on his Franklinized hearth.

   1982, Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The conspiracy and years of exile, 1805-1836, page 345

3. To electrically stimulate.

   Capriati and Pisani have shown by the ergograph that fatigue shows itself much later in Franklinized muscles than in the normal state.

   1905, Archives of Physiological Therapy - Volumes 1-2, page 274

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   The Franklinic currents of all degrees were supplied by a Goltz's friction machine; all the patients were left uninsulated and Franklinized during from five to fifteen minutes at a sitting, by the positive pole alone.

   1884, The Eclectic Medical Journal - Volume 44, page 136

   The identical result has been obtained in faradic electrification of muscle tissue. Thirdly, there occurs in properly Franklinized subjects a notable increase in body weight.

   1903, The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic - Volume 90, page 154

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1. transitiveTo arrange according to the Franklin Planner system of time management.

   Let's Franklinize Your Schedule First, get a yellow pad and a pen.

   1998, Michael F. Staley, Igniting the Leader Within

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   The design itself, the content of the plan, basically followed the outline that was presented at the seminar I attended. From that sketch we “Franklinized” the format, furnished the minimum requirements for the respective plan components.

   1988, Proceedings of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association

   For example: A few years ago, I became “franklinized,” and now I use the Franklin Planner to manage my time and hold people accountable.

   2001, Simone P. Joyaux, Strategic Fund Development, page 268