verticalise

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A form of verticalize — To orient vertically.

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Meanings

verbverticalise (third-person singular simple present verticalises, present participle verticalising, simple past and past participle verticalised)

present singular third person verticalises · participle present verticalising · participle past verticalised · past verticalised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of verticalize.

    Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.

    1999, Gilbert Durand, The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary, page 154
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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