GEN'ERALIZE, verb transitive To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. 1. To reduce to a genus.
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