v. rare. [f. LOGIC or L. logic-us + -IZE.]
1. intr. To use logical argument, employ logic.
1835. Blackw. Mag., XXXVIII. 525. Soc. Hast thou, tell me, the spirit of Logic within ye? Strep. I can’t logicize—no—but I’ll pilfer with any.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, vi. (1858), 348. Intelleci is not speaking and logicising: it is seeing and ascertaining.
1844. H. P. Tappan, Elem. Logic, Pref. 5. Reason … is the faculty which reasons or logicizes.
2. trans. To turn into logic. nonce-use.
1855. J. H. Stirling, Secret of Hegel, I. 200. Take Hegel’s widest … division of Logic, Nature, Spirit: the last subsumes the second under the first; Spirit logicises Nature.
