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  • verb UK Alternative spelling of taxonomize.

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Examples

  • Although the unheimlich of tragedy is not necessarily uncanny, grotesque, as it is usually required to be for us to taxonomise a work as "horror", in both tragedy and horror the events are literally "awful", violating the "laws of Man and God".

    Strange Fiction 4 Hal Duncan 2006

  • In the seven days, the seven ages, the seven stages of creation we can see a simple attempt to taxonomise the world philosophically from first principles.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Although the unheimlich of tragedy is not necessarily uncanny, grotesque, as it is usually required to be for us to taxonomise a work as "horror", in both tragedy and horror the events are literally "awful", violating the "laws of Man and God".

    Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • In the seven days, the seven ages, the seven stages of creation we can see a simple attempt to taxonomise the world philosophically from first principles.

    A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006

  • my review of Walter Jon Williams 'This Is Not a Game, so you can go read my attempts to taxonomise a genuine (and really pretty decent) hybrid of near-future sf and technothriller.

    Velcro City Tourist Board 2009

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