scientify

To make scientific; to subject to scientific rules.

Verb

  1. To make scientific; to subject to scientific rules.
    • I am aware it is not so flattering to scientify men into atoms, as if, with others, I were to mystify them into angels. But I can only regret to find it impossible to humour them in this serious matter, consistly with...
    • Textbooks were written that portrayed Chinese medicine as a theoretical and practical whole, and they were taught in newly founded academies of so-called “traditional Chinese medicine,” […]. Needless to say, the...

    Synonyms: scientize

Origin

From scient(ific) + -ify.

Forms

scientifies scientifying scientified