v. [See -IZE.]
1. trans. To enter in a journal or book for daily accounts; spec. in Book-keeping, to make a journal entry in which the Dr. and Cr. accounts are specified, in order to its being posted to the proper accounts in the ledger.
1766. W. Gordon, Gen. Counting-ho., 17. To journalize the inventory.
1786. W. Larkins, Lett., in Burke’s Wks., XIV. 225. He requested me to form the account of his receipts and disbursements, which you will find journalised in … the Honourable Company’s general books of the year 1781–2.
1816. Gentl. Mag., LXXXVI. I. 345. A Waste-book … in which transactions are hastily entered, until more leisurely journalised in a proper form.
1849. Freese, Comm. Class-bk., 101. From the books above specified, the accounts are organised in the Journal, or as it is termed, journalised; and thence posted into the Ledger.
2. To enter, record or describe in or as in a private journal.
1775. J. Jekyll, Corr., 29 July (1894), ii. 39. A little tour I had made for a week, and which I shall journalise after I have thanked you.
1777. Johnson, Lett. to Mrs. Thrale, 29 Sept. He [Boswell] kept his journal very diligently; but then what was there to journalize?
1844. P. Harwood, Hist. Irish Rebell., 61, note. He journalises the following note of a conversation.
1860. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., II. 303. I would gladly journalize some of my proceedings, and describe things and people.
3. intr. To make entries in or keep a journal. (In first quot., to write letters in journal form.)
1774. Mad. D’Arblay, Early Diary, Sept. (1889), I. 312. Willingly … do I comply with your request of journalizing to you during my stay at this place.
1843. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1883), 334. After dinner, I … began to journalize.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xix. 239. I have too much to attend to in my weak state to journalize.
4. To engage in journalism; to do the work of a journalist.
1864. Realm, 13 April, 3. A writer who is also an actor in politics … is a healthier man than the journalist who journalises in sæcula sæculorum.
Hence Journalizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a. Also Journalizer, one who journalizes.
1796. Lamb, Lett. (1888), I. 25. To-day’s portion of my journalising epistle has been very dull.
1818. Lady Morgan, Autobiog. (1859), 9. Journalising is a dangerous temptation to the garrulity of women.
1836. Penny Cycl., V. 164/1. The act of digesting these original entries is called Journalizing, because they are collected together in a book called The Journal.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, Nov. an. 1825. Though not a regular journalizer, he kept a brief diary.
