Meanings
verbprecisify (third-person singular simple present precisifies, present participle precisifying, simple past and past participle precisified)
present singular third person precisifies · participle present precisifying · participle past precisified · past precisified
- human sciencesTo make precise; to make more precise.
To precisify is to rule out the possibility of certain truth-value gaps.
1996, Rosanna Kenney, Vagueness: A Reader, page 129
Origin
From precise + -ify. Attested since the 20th century.
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