dynamize, v. Med.
(ˈdaɪn-, ˈdɪnəmaɪz)
[see -ize.]
trans. To endow with power. In Homœopathy, To increase the power of (medicines) by trituration or succussion. Hence dynamiˈzation.
| 1855 Househ. Words XII. 69 Monstrous assertions of the curative power of the ‘high dynamisation’ of medicinal substances. 1881 J. G. Glover in Encycl. Brit. XII. 127/1 The most characteristic feature of Hahnemann's practice—the ‘potentizing’, ‘dynamizing’, of medicinal substances. 1883 Syd. Soc. Lex., Dynamisation..used by the homœopathists to denote the accession or freeing of active powers produced in a medicine by pounding it or shaking violently the bottle in which it is contained. |
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Restrict Med. to sense in Dict. and add: 2. To render more dynamic or effective, in financial or economic contexts. a. spec. To increase the value of (a retirement pension), esp. by calculating it not upon final-year earnings but according to a formula more advantageous to the contributor; to subject (earnings) to such calculations.
| 1971 S. & L. Tutt Private Pension Scheme Finance iii. 71 The concept of utilizing the maturity bonus to the members', rather than the employer's, advantage by arranging for it to dynamize the pension payable. a 1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 276 The basic idea had been that we should switch as early as possible from flat-rate to earnings-related contributions and in this way pile up enormous sums in the pension fund which we could use to dynamize the existing flat-rate pension. 1981 S. Ward Pensions iv. 70 What difference would it make if George's earnings were ‘dynamised’ in the way the Inland Revenue allows? 1989 Daily Tel. 14 Oct. 31/4 Norwich Union..cannot dynamise the pension without the trustees' approval. Ibid. We would have been able to pay Mr Muir some benefits if the trustees had been willing to operate a decision to dynamise salaries. |
b. gen.
| 1975 Facts on File 5 Apr. 221/2 Goncalves said the new government would have the task of ‘dynamizing the economy and consolidating the advances already made through the nationalization of the banks and insurance companies’. 1980 Amer. Banker 3 July 5/1 Mexican..industrial product represents almost 30{pcnt} of the economic apparatus, and oil income is mainly dynamizing this sector, opening possibilities for a growing number of industrial investments. 1990 Guardian 11 June 9/8 The enlarging of Italy's markets in Europe will only dynamise its unique industrial structure still more. |