differentialize
verbEtymology From differential + -ize.
1
Rare Synonym of differentiate.
- By taking a false analogy—that of a magnetic needle—he had distorted light into two poles, and thus (no less than had formerly been done) had sought to explain colours by differentializing the Unchangeable and Untouchable.1836, Sarah Austin, Goethe and His Contemporaries:
- Manifold as are the disorders and diseases of the organs which are more or less concerned in enabling mankind to draw the “breath of life,” it is no intention of mine to differentialize them, and to apportion to each their relative importance.1876, J[oseph] H[enry] Shorthouse, “Diseases and Disorders of the Breathing Apparatus”, in The Common Sense of Medicine, 3rd edition, London: A. H. Baily & Co., page 7:
- Synonyms
- discriminate, distinguish