temporalize

present singular third person temporalizes · participle present temporalizing · participle past temporalized · past temporalized · alternative temporalise

1. oftentransitivehuman sciencesTo situate in time.

   Spencer begins with an idea in the Platonist sense, which he proceeds to unfold, to spatialize and temporalize in the universe of fiction.

   1991, S. K. Heninger, Jr., “Spenser, Sidney, and Poetic Form”, in Studies in Philology, volume 88, number 2, page 147

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   There are probably innumerable rhythms in a sensation during the duration of a second. . . . We are unable to temporalize our sensations of phenomena.

   1928 November 22, Herman Hausheer, “A Theory of Perception”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 25, number 24, page 647

   In each language, mechanisms are available which allow us to classify, serialize, localize, and temporalize the objects of possible experience.

   1976, Jürgen Habermas, “Some Distinctions in Universal Pragmatics: A Working Paper”, in Theory and Society, volume 3, number 2, page 161

   By way of discourse, we break out of the immediate surround. . . . Whereas the other intentional threads spatialize and temporalize a surround with somewhat limited range . . ., discourse discloses world.

   2002, Corey Anton, “Discourse as Care: A Phenomenological Consideration of Spatiality and Temporality”, in Human Studies, volume 25, number 2, page 195

2. To secularize.