scientize

To make scientific.

Verb

  1. To make scientific.
    • So far, I have argued that attempts in the 20th century to scientize the humanities wound up putting them at risk. - 1996, Henry J. Perkinson, No safety in numbers, →ISBN:
    • Eugenics is an early chapter in a long history of scientized prejudice in the United States, a story in which scientific evidence for racial, class, and gender hierarchies became popular and entered public discourse on...
    • Husserl tried to scientize psychology. - 2012, John-Michael Kuczynski, Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology, →ISBN, page 135:

    Synonyms: scientificize

Origin

From scient(ific) + -ize.

Forms

scientizes scientizing scientized