Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin rēs (“thing”) + -ify (English suffix).
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- Unspecified derivation mentionrēsla
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