ontologise

ontologise (third-person singular simple present ontologises, present participle ontologising, simple past and past participle ontologised)

1. Alternative form of ontologize
   • 1981, William J. Wainwright, Mysticism, page 122:

     According to Robert Gimello, 'Buddhists do not ontologise the contents of their mystical experiences.'

   • 2003, Sallie Westwood, John Williams, Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories, →ISBN, page 250:

     But in doing so we will try to expose some of the false analogies which attempt to ontologise the cyberworld as a parallel universe to our own—as a space apart with its own terms and conditions into which we are inserted as nodes of communication and as identities constituted as a function of the meanings internal to the virtual realm.

   • 2009, Gotthard Bechmann, The Social Integration of Science, →ISBN, page 109:

     The natural sciences were only able to ontologise their statements traditionally because the object of their research – nature – normally did not contradict this.

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 432:

     There, in the 1210s, a figure known as the Blind Cathar ontologised into being a conduit into the Dusk.

• oenologist, ontologies, solongoite, tonologies, œnologist