v. [f. FRACTION + -IZE.] trans. (and absol.) To break up into fractions.
1675. Collins, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 216. If the second term of an equation be wanting, the penultimate may be removed into the room of it … and that without fractionizing.
1831. Southey, Doctrine de Saint Simon, in Quarterly Review, XLV. 443. They detach, they fractionize, they divide the world, the globe, and even the village, because they see nothing but petty sovereign individualities, satellites without planets, and an insurrection against the universal law of ATTRACTION.
1841. Fraser’s Mag., XXIV. Aug., 207/2. At such a moment as this, to divide, disturb, fractionise, or enfeeble the Conservative party, would be an act of treachery.
1872. Joseph Mazzini, The International, in Contemporary Review, XX. Sept., 583 All of these fragmentary ideas—the issue of the two systems—violate human unity, deny the single aim set before human life, and fractionize, but do not resolve the problem.
