eventualize

English

Verb

eventualize (third-person singular simple present eventualizes, present participle eventualizing, simple past and past participle eventualized)

1. To take place or occur.

   Synonyms: come about, happen, occur, take place, transpire

   • 1855, J. Dacres Devlin, Rules & Regulations of the Ballast-Heavers' Brotherhood of the Port of London:

     True, there might be a slight difficulty in the shame, but as regarded the sin, there was no item of that kind ever scored down on the Bar-slate that had its own familiar peg whereon to hang such tales of evil as must pain and shock every pure mind—tales of devilish import, eventualizing, in most instances, most grievously and banefully—in rags, want of food, perhaps in crime, and almost, for certain, in pauperism!

   • 1866, George W. Thompson, The Living Forces of the Universe:

     In thus intuscepting the fundamental and initiative momenta of itself, the Self cognizes the exercise of three classes of powers which eventualize as forces, and which are still further analyzable into three simple discrete elementary powers.

   • 1991, J. Michael Barrett, James Stanley McQuade, Determining disability and personal injury damage: medical evaluation for trial lawyers:

     Doctors are not accustomed to dwell pessimistically on the future problems of their patients. If the problem does eventualize, it can be handled then.

Related terms

• eventuality
• eventualization