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English

Verb

pemmicanize (third-person singular simple present pemmicanizes, present participle pemmicanizing, simple past and past participle pemmicanized)

• To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
  • ✤ The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind.¹
  • ✤ For coal-tar-dyed hard candies and pemmicanized oranges I gave the jumping Methodists a visit.²
  • ✤ Driver mentions (elem. 338-40) that most of the northwestern peoples ground “meat or fish” and added grease or berries, in other words, more or less pemmicanized it; which suggests they were not too fond of the mere dry powder.³
• To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.
  • ✤ His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier.⁴
  • ✤ It would therefore be unjust to M. Beer, since deceased, to allow my work to be supposed a full or faithful version of his successful attempt to pemmicanize tragic interest.⁵
  • ✤ There is no better way of achieving this desirable end than by the use of a slogan. The appeal or announcement must be “pemmicanized” into a command, a broad hint or a statement.⁶
  • ✤ If David Graham Phillips could have pemmicanized his story of Susan Lenox, he would have produced a pamphlet that would have made revolution.⁷
  • ✤ I have of course inferred these questions from the surviving remains of very large numbers of thinkers in the early period of Greek philosophy, and ‘pemmicanized’ them into a tidy list.⁸

Etymology

From pemmican +‎ -ize.

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Footnotes

1. 1887, Canada. Parliament. Senate, Journals of the Senate of Canada, page 387: ↩

2. 1957, James Laughlin, New Directions in Prose and Poetry - Volume 16, page 226: ↩

3. 1960, Research Studies: Monographic supplement - Issues 1-2, page 121: ↩

4. 1845 July 12, “The Late thomas Hood”, in The Living Age, volume 6, number 61, page 64: ↩

5. 1856, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, The Pilgrimage: And Other Poems, page 133: ↩

6. 1923, The Washington Newspaper: ↩

7. 1972, Holbrook Jackson, To-day - Volumes 5-6, page 79: ↩

8. 2005, Chris Emlyn-Jones, Plato, Trevor Saunders, Early Socratic Dialogues: ↩