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Generalise

verb
1.
Speak or write in generalities.  Synonym: generalize.
2.
Draw from specific cases for more general cases.  Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer.
3.
Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.  Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize.  "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
4.
Become systemic and spread throughout the body.  Synonym: generalize.



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"Generalise" Quotes from Famous Books



... system, no errors are so difficult to root out as those which the understanding has pledged its credit to uphold. In this Class are contained censors, who, if they be pleased with what is good, are pleased with it only by imperfect glimpses, and upon false principles; who, should they generalise rightly, to a certain point, are sure to suffer for it in the end; who, if they stumble upon a sound rule, are fettered by misapplying it, or by straining it too far; being incapable of perceiving when it ought to yield ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... grant that if a writer was sufficiently at once incompetent and obsequious Mr. Darwin was "ever ready," &c. So the Emperors of Austria wash a few poor people's feet on some one of the festivals of the Church, but it would not be safe to generalise from this yearly ceremony, and conclude that the Emperors of Austria are in the habit of washing poor people's feet. I can understand Mr. Darwin's not having taken any public notice, for example, of "Life and Habit," for though I did not attack him in force ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler

... ends and that of the other begins, and add to it a wide knowledge of large affairs, which no special man can have, and which is only gained by diversified action. But this utility of leading minds used to generalise, and acting upon various materials, is entirely dependent upon their position. They must not be at the bottom—they must not even be half way up—they must be at the top. A merchant's clerk would be a child at a bank counter; but the merchant himself could, very ...
— The English Constitution • Walter Bagehot



Words linked to "Generalise" :   specify, distribute, verbalize, universalize, overgeneralize, universalise, talk, reason out, overgeneralise, speak, verbalise, propagate, generalisation, reason, utter, circularise, infer, pass around, circulate, disperse, broadcast, circularize, conclude, disseminate, spread, mouth, diffuse



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