ontologise

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A form of ontologize — To convert into ontological entities or express in ontological terms.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbontologise (third-person singular simple present ontologises, present participle ontologising, simple past and past participle ontologised)

present singular third person ontologises · participle present ontologising · participle past ontologised · past ontologised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ontologize.

    According to Robert Gimello, 'Buddhists do not ontologise the contents of their mystical experiences.'

    1981, William J. Wainwright, Mysticism, page 122
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    But in doing so we will try to expose some of the false analogies which attempt to ontologise the cyberworld as a parallel universe to our own—as a space apart with its own terms and conditions into which we are inserted as nodes of communication and as identities constituted as a function of the meanings internal to the virtual realm.

    2003, Sallie Westwood, John Williams, Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories, →ISBN, page 250

    The natural sciences were only able to ontologise their statements traditionally because the object of their research – nature – normally did not contradict this.

    2009, Gotthard Bechmann, The Social Integration of Science, →ISBN, page 109

    There, in the 1210s, a figure known as the Blind Cathar ontologised into being a conduit into the Dusk.

    2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 432

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ontologise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ontologise

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“ontologise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ontologise. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ontologise,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ontologise.

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