The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardinalize
Cardinalize \Car"di*nal*ize\, v. t.
To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
--Sheldon.
Wiktionary
cardinalize
vb. 1 (context economics English) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters). 2 To exalt to the office of a cardinal.