taxonify

English

Etymology

taxon +‎ -ify

Verb

taxonify (third-person singular simple present taxonifies, present participle taxonifying, simple past and past participle taxonified)

1. To categorize. [from late 20th century]
   • 1976, T Long, “Understanding comic action in Aristophanes”, in The Classical World:

     One can only regret the disappearance of a treatise on acting by Theophrastus which would doubtless have taxonified all of the […]

   • 1997, 1997 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium‎^[1], page 264:

     In this framework, systems are represented using a codesign request-resource model coupled with software architectures taxonified by [9] ^[sic].

   • 2008, Edwin S. Shneidman, A Commonsense Book of Death‎^[2]:

     A thanatologist is a designated thinker about death. He spells out the obvious and the not-so-obvious; he classifies; he taxonifies; he divides and subdivides; he takes a long view by stepping outside his home and outside his church to look from intellectual space free of terrestrial gravity and the baggage of everyday thought.

   • 2011 March 21, Matilda Battersby, “Street Cries: depictions of London's poor”, in Independent:

     “With the onset of the Age of Reason and science, the educated upper and middle classes in Britain began looking at society and finding ways to taxonify the poor,” Marshall says.

   • 2016, Katherine Ellison, A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals‎^[3]:

     Wilkins prefers taxonifying types of communication, so he notes that stenography can be either private or public.