v. [f. Gr. συμπτωματ-, σύμπτωμα SYMPTOM + -IZE.] trans. To be a symptom of; to characterize or indicate as a symptom.
1794. Coleridge, Lett., to Southey (1895), 81. I think of her … with unspeakable tenderness, with that inward melting away of soul that symptomatizes it. Ibid. (1817), Biog. Lit., x. (1907), I. 131. The exhaustion had produced a cold fit of the ague which was symptomatized by indifference among the many, and a tendency to infidelity or scepticism in the educated classes.
1875. Encycl. Brit., II. 171/1. Amnesic aphasia is symptomatised very variously. Ibid. (1880), XIII. 109/1. Senile insanity is symptomatized by dementia with frequent intercurrent attacks of mania.
