scientize

present singular third person scientizes · participle present scientizing · participle past scientized · past scientized

1. transitiveTo make scientific.First known use 19th c.

   Husserl tried to scientize psychology.

   2012, John-Michael Kuczynski, Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology, →ISBN, page 135

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   So far, I have argued that attempts in the 20th century to scientize the humanities wound up putting them at risk.

   1996, Henry J. Perkinson, No safety in numbers, →ISBN

   Eugenics is an early chapter in a long history of scientized prejudice in the United States, a story in which scientific evidence for racial, class, and gender hierarchies became popular and entered public discourse on a broad scale.

   2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 94

   Synonyms: scientificize