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Webster 1913 Edition

Generalize

Gen′er-al-ize

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Verb.
I.
To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.

Webster 1828 Edition

Generalize

GEN'ERALIZE

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Verb.
T.
To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number.
Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
1.
To reduce to a genus.

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