Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GENER-AL-IZE, v.t.

1. To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. Nicholson.
2. To reduce to a genus. Reid.