modalize

English

Etymology

From modal +‎ -ize.

Verb

modalize (third-person singular simple present modalizes, present participle modalizing, simple past and past participle modalized)

1. To become or cause to become modal
   • 1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The Homosexual Century: In Search of Gay Memory”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 8:

     There is a new contradiction inside the gay community, which is that it's becoming more 'modalized', to use a technical term. I'm referring to the clone system, or any kind of system like it. The gay ghetto is not a real integration of gays into society. It's just a concentration of the gay population.

Anagrams

• dimazole