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Definition of Generalizes
1. generalize [v] - See also: generalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Generalizes
Literary usage of Generalizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"I. THE REASON ABSTRACTS, generalizes, AND CLASSIFIES. a. THE reason, after having
cognized numerous objects, selects from each of them that one thing in ..."
2. Some Thoughts and Suggestions on Technical Education by Thomas Egleston (1888)
"crates, then reasons, then generalizes, draws certain and fixed conclusions, and
then makes their applications and permits at the same time of the ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry with Numerous Examples by John Wellesley Russell (1905)
"points, a pair of circular lines generalizes into a pair of lines. one through
... Since all circles pass through the circular points, a circle generalizes ..."
4. Meta-Analysis of Drug Abuse Prevention Programs edited by William J. Bukoski (1998)
"That is, validity generalizes across situations. The third substantive question
involves an examination of the SD of true validities to examine the extent ..."
5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1878)
"... it will afterwards avoid not only the bull which has injured it, but all bulls;
and thus it plainly both remembers and generalizes. I am not, of course, ..."
6. Repetition of Thought in Plautus by Daniel Higgins Fenton (1920)
"Then she generalizes the thought with "quin pol si ... Then she generalizes
with "miser est qui amat. Certo is quidem nihilist / qui nihil amat; ..."
7. How We Think by John Dewey (1910)
"Every step forward generaliz- toward an idea that comprehends, that explains,
that * on unites what was isolated and therefore puzzling, generalizes. ..."
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