lexiconize

English

Alternative forms

• lexiconise

Etymology

From lexicon +‎ -ize.

Verb

lexiconize (third-person singular simple present lexiconizes, present participle lexiconizing, simple past and past participle lexiconized)

1. To create a lexicon for.
   • 2013, John Michael Cooper, Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, page 11:

     We hope that the present attempt to lexiconize the vast and multifaceted worlds of music's Romanticisms will serve as a stepping-stone for more satisfactory future contributions.

   • 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins: A Novel:

     The dog had no way of naming things for itself and so Teddy had dutifully taken it upon himself to lexiconize the world for it.

   • 2016, Augustine Agwuele, The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland:

     In order to delineate and label realities, there are no natural concepts that only require linguistic label to be reflected; rather, groups lexiconize naturalized concepts and elements; pivotal to this linguistic encoding of notions are customs and worldview, both of which have been located within the Yoruba cosmology.