cardinalize

present singular third person cardinalizes · participle present cardinalizing · participle past cardinalized · past cardinalized

1. economicsto 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.

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

   1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book

3. poeticraretransitiveTo turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.

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

   1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], 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; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5)