theorize

Definition

To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.

Etymology

From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie.

Example Sentences

• "Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago."
• "There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such)."
• "Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning."