capsulize
verbEtymology From capsule + -ize.
1
To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.
2
Figuratively To make into a concise form; to encapsulate.
- Nothing is capsulized in me / On either side of town / The streets were never really mine / Not mine these glamour gowns1975, Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns:
- Radical academic Howard Zinn's quip that the U.S. is "always ready to kill people to protect them from communism" capsulized many presentations that examined U.S. international and domestic aggression (cloaked as jingoistic anti-terrorism) against progressive movments ^([sic]) and governments.1988 December 11, Wickie Stamps, “Cambridge Conference Chronicles Anticommunism”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 3:
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- Four great sayings capsulize his message: […]1999, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Weaver's Wisdom, glossary entry for ‘Yogaswami’, page 289
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