v. [f. CAPITAL sb.2 + -IZE.]
1. trans. To convert into capital.
1868. Rogers, Pol. Econ., xxiii. (ed. 3), 307. Notes bearing interest, to be subsequently capitalised into a funded debt.
1885. Sir E. Kay, in Law Times Rep., LII. 369/2. The company were authorised … to capitalise the reserved fund.
fig. 1878. G. W. Julian, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 241. They should teach us to capitalize our philanthropy to the utmost.
2. To convert (a periodical income or payment) into an equivalent capital sum; to compute or realize the present value of such a payment for a definite or indefinite length of time.
1856. Times, 22 Jan., 6/5. As to the project of capitalizing income, that is another affair.
1861. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. cxlv. 131. The hundred millions … must be, as the term learnt in France I think is, capitalized.
3. To print in capitals. nonce-use.
1850. Whipple, Ess. & Rev., II. 264. Capitalizing the names of abstract qualities.
Hence Capitalized ppl. a., Capitalizer sb., Capitalizing vbl. sb.
1863. Gladstone, Financ. Statem., 33. The capitalized value of the income.
1880. Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 849. The administrator of capital and labour is not a mere middleman; he is a capitalizer.
1882. W. B. Weeden, Soc. Law Labor, 28. Small farmers … are almost always capitalizers.
1880. W. Brown, in Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 848/2. Capitalizing; that is, the converting of capital and labor into more capital.
