The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dichotomize \Di*chot"o*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dichotomized; p. pr. & vb. n. Dichotomizing.] [See Dichotomous.]
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To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.]
The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace.
--Bp. Hall. (Astron.) To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy,
``[The moon] was dichotomized.''
--Whewell.
Dichotomize \Di*chot"o*mize\, v. i. To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To separate into two parts or classifications. 2 (context intransitive English) To be divided into two. 3 (context astronomy English) To exhibit as a half disk.
WordNet
v. divide into two opposing groups or kinds [syn: dichotomise]
Usage examples of "dichotomize".
Wells draws an admirable picture of a dichotomized humanity, one branch etiolated and inane, the other brutalized and automatic.
James Fowler, for example, divides formop into early formop, dichotomizing formop, dialectical formop, and synthetic formop (the first three being what I am calling rationality, and the last being vision-logic, although all four are "reason" in the very broadest sense).