franklinize means to cause to be influenced by Benjamin Franklin and his political leadership. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Franklin + -ize from Benjamin Franklin.
verb
- To cause to be influenced by Benjamin Franklin and his political leadership.“This Flotilla is the natural consequence of the Treaty defensive and offensive between la Fayetted France and Franklinized America; the same infernal inspiration that lopped the limb, would crush the carcase;”
- To economize; to subject to extreme thrift.“Franklinize your good principle. Let your treasurer at term-day acknowledge the "principle" of Stipend-paying, but renounce its specific forms of Sovereigns and Bank-notes, —how do you like it?”
- To electrically stimulate.“The Franklinic currents of all degrees were supplied by a Goltz's friction machine; all the patients were left uninsulated and Franklinized during from five to fifteen minutes at a sitting, by the positive pole alone.”
- To arrange according to the Franklin Planner system of time management.“The design itself, the content of the plan, basically followed the outline that was presented at the seminar I attended. From that sketch we “Franklinized” the format, furnished the minimum requirements for the respective plan components.”