cardinalize

From cardinal +‎ -ize.

cardinalize (third-person singular simple present cardinalizes, present participle cardinalizing, simple past and past participle cardinalized)

1. (economics) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
2. To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
   • 1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book:

     It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all

3. (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
   • 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart] and [Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. , London: for Richard Baddeley, , →OCLC; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Navarre Society , , →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling

• cardinalization

• ordinalize