SEMANTICIZE

Semanticize

verb

Present third person singular: she/he semanticizes.

Indicative past, past participle: semanticized

Present participle: semanticizing.

Etymology: from the adjective semantic, with -ize suffixed. It is etymologically and semantically identical with Spanish semantizar, French sémantiser, and Italian semantizzare.

Transitively

Definition: to attempt to know or make known the semantic value of (a word, a phrase, etc.); to analyse semantically; to write or to speak (something) with a meaning, as contrasted with parrotry.

Synonym: to define

Antonym: to parrot

Words read or heard, which remain unintelligible, can be semanticized by looking them up in their alphabetical places.

Werner Hüllen (Networks and Knowledge in Roget’s Thesaurus)

A frequently used technique to semanticize a word is the negation of an antonym: ‘dead’ means <not being alive>, a ‘dark’ room is a room <without light>.

Werner Hüllen (Networks and Knowledge in Roget’s Thesaurus)

[…] these terms need to be semanticized and historicized differently […]

Elizabeth A. Meese – Alice Parker

The names of categories […] or headwords of entry articles are printed in roman with inverted commas. So are expressions which semanticize lexemes and words.

Werner Hüllen (Networks and Knowledge in Roget’s Thesaurus)

The Greek sēma (= sign) is comprised in this word of semantic and in the following ones: semanteme, semantical, semantician, semanticist, semanticity, semantically, semanticized, semanticizing, semaphore (verb, noun), semasiology, semasiologic, semasiological, semasiologically, semasiologist, sematic, sematography, sematographic, semaphore