temporalize

• temporalise

From temporal +‎ -ize.

temporalize (third-person singular simple present temporalizes, present participle temporalizing, simple past and past participle temporalized)

1. (transitive, often philosophy) To situate in time.
   • 1928 November 22, Herman Hausheer, “A Theory of Perception”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 25, number 24, page 647:

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

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

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

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

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

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

     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.

2. To secularize.

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