Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mesmerize.
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- verb transitive To make
biological ; toassimilate into a biologicalframework orcontext .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Together, these researchers are attempting to "biologize" religion, recalling E.O. Wilson's notorious call for inquiry into human values "to be removed temporarily from the hands of philosophers and biologized."
The Infidel Guy Show 2008
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Together, these researchers are attempting to "biologize" religion, recalling E.O. Wilson's notorious call for inquiry into human values "to be removed temporarily from the hands of philosophers and biologized."
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In the culture at large there is a tendency to biologize suicide, make it a psychiatric disease called depression and treat it with medication.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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In the culture at large there is a tendency to biologize suicide, make it a psychiatric disease called depression and treat it with medication.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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It Tells all about _Electrical Psychology_, showing how you can biologize any person, and, while under the influence, he will do anything you may wish him no matter how ridiculous it may be, and he cannot help doing it.
Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field Harlan Page Halsey
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If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.
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If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.
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If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.
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Thirteenth-century medical writers followed in a misogynist tradition of medical thought (Hippocratic theories of the wandering womb; Aristotelian ideas of women as imperfect men) in which they tried to biologize the female threat as women‘s lack of control over their nutritive yet dangerous bodily fluids.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Habituated to the wonders of the nervous fluid, knowing that it can raise, at a distance, inert objects, that it can biologize, that it can communicate suppleness or rigidity, the highest development of the senses or absolute insensibility, we should not be greatly surprised to discover that it communicates also, in certain cases, elasticity and that degree of impenetrability which characterizes gum-elastic. "[
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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