marginalize, v. rare.
(ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz)
[f. marginal + -ize.]
trans. and intr. To make marginal notes (upon).
| a 1832 Bentham Mem. & Corr. Wks. 1843 X. 68, I used..to marginalize and make notes on cards. 1872 F. Jacox Aspects of Authorship 102 Augustine's Confessions..he [Abp. Leighton] similarly marginalized. Ibid. 112 note, Byron could marginalize with similar fertility and facility. |
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Restrict rare to sense in Dict. and add: 2. trans. [Prob. after F. marginaliser, which occurs slightly earlier in this sense.] To render or treat as marginal; to remove from the centre or mainstream; to force or confine (an individual, social group, activity, etc.) to the periphery of any sphere of influence or operation; gen. to belittle, depreciate, discount, or dismiss.
| 1978 Dædalus Summer 33 That Rousseau was self-taught..seemed to discredit and marginalize him all the more. 1980 Times 11 Mar. 12/6 They [sc. Czech dissidents] have been labelled as subversive and marginalized by the authorities for trying to do what should be normal and natural in any social order that values free thought and the maintenance of cultural traditions. 1984 Listener 24 May 10/3 Local music will become marginalised and ghetto-ised in the manner of folk and avant-garde music. 1985 Sunday Times 24 Feb. 17/7 Because an unpopular minority appeared at risk, its spokesmen's early warnings about the disease were ‘marginalised’ and discounted. 1987 Ecologist Mar./June 60/2 What safeguards can possibly enable you to set up one of the biggest mining and industrial complexes ever conceived of in a tropical forest without destroying it and marginalising its tribal inhabitants? 1992 Countryside Campaigner (CPRE) Spring 7/1 The environment has been marginalised to questions of superficial landscaping and design. |
So ˈmarginalized ppl. a. (also absol.), ˈmarginalizing ppl. a. and vbl. n.
| 1970 Times 31 Oct. 12/3 Towering economic and social problems which effectively leave half the populations marginalized. 1985 Community Librarian Aug. 13 The marginalising effect of Urban Aid and Section 11 funding..should be recognised. 1985 Rev. Eng. Stud. Aug. 461 This account resists the marginalizing of the literary. 1987 Christian Aid News 7 Jan. 5/2 We all have work to do to put the marginalised, the hungry..and the homeless on the election agenda. 1992 Bomb Winter 18/3 You work with what are often called ‘marginalized’ people, such as African-Americans and people of color. |