molarize

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Definition of molarize

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To evolve or develop into molar teeth.
    “Macrodontia and microdontia are relatively common human craniofacial abnormalities, and macrodontia of premolars has frequently been described as molarized premolars.”
    “All are characterized by extreme postcanine megadontia, premolars with molarized roots, lower molars with accessory cuspules, and thick molar enamel.”
    “In the Eocene, slender chocropotamids (e.g. younger species of Amphirhagatherium) belong to this group, which display a tendency to elongate the skull and molarize the premolars.”
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verb

  1. To evolve or develop into molar teeth.
    “Macrodontia and microdontia are relatively common human craniofacial abnormalities, and macrodontia of premolars has frequently been described as molarized premolars.”
    “All are characterized by extreme postcanine megadontia, premolars with molarized roots, lower molars with accessory cuspules, and thick molar enamel.”
    “In the Eocene, slender chocropotamids (e.g. younger species of Amphirhagatherium) belong to this group, which display a tendency to elongate the skull and molarize the premolars.”
  2. To chew, especially with the molar teeth.
    “Then the children, dear little angels! will like to molarize juta-paste and taffy, and the happy father while purchasing these at Mike Sweeney's should try some of that tradesman's tobacco and cigars.”
    “The other people are not eating, they're just watching you, as though you were Madonna having sex, or Lady Di doing nothing. Like you're on a stage, at a dinner table, and there's an auditorium full of curious, eager people with laser-like gazes aimed at your fork as you stab a glob of mutton, raise it to face level, part your lips, welcome the glob into your oral cavity, molarize it for a few seconds, then send it south.”
  3. To create a molar solution of.
    “It is assumed that it might be possible, by subjecting an aqueous solution to selective radiation in a narrow spectrum of wavelengths at which the hydrate ion sheaths would be destroyed, to molarize the ions and separate salts from the aqueous solution.”
  4. To incorporate or subsume (something) in its entirety.
    “If a person is able to “molarize” all knowledge or comprehend one molar reality or concept perfectly, that person will reach the highest level of extrasensory perception, which is to perceive the will of the Supreme Creator.”
    “These subjectivities are struck together to form a truly disgusting gum to replace desiring machines. They molarize the desiring machines, and represent them.”
    “Along these lines, the theoretical interventions offered in this resuscitation of Tarde require the identification of a series of countersociological, evolutionary, and psychological ideas, forwarded by Durkheim, neo-Darwinians, and Freud, that tend to molarize the organizational forces of contagion.”
    “Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 221, explains that “it is always on the most deterritorialized element that reterritorialization takes place,” as if to reappropriate (and molarize) it before it takes flight.”

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Etymology

From molar + -ize.

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