Franklinize

English

Etymology 1

Franklin +‎ -ize from Benjamin Franklin

Alternative forms

• franklinize

Verb

Franklinize (third-person singular simple present Franklinizes, present participle Franklinizing, simple past and past participle Franklinized)

1. To cause to be influenced by Benjamin Franklin and his political leadership.
   • 1804, Joshua Larwood, No Gun Boats, or no Peace! A letter from Me to Myself, page 27:

     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;

   • 1866, Adam Gurowski, Diary ...: 1863-'64-'65, page 51:

     This makes up for many of your blunders ; not , however , for Fredericksburg , although you have been there McClellanized , and , above all , Franklinized .

   • 1908, The Book News Monthly - Volume 27, page 89:

     I find that Philadelphia is really a Franklinized City, though the inhabitants do not know it. In the course of my prolonged visit I was able to see all of the physical monuments to Franklin, and was much depressed because the man does not seem to be much understood in his own city.

2. To economize; to subject to extreme thrift.
   • 1837, Reply to ... Dr. H. Cooke, page 17:

     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?

   • 1920, Electrical Construction and Maintenance - Volume 20, page 109:

     Government Savings Stamps will aid you to Franklinize.

   • 1969, Harrie Sheridan Baketel, Medical Economics - Volume 46, page 224:

     Painting is another way I've found to Franklinize my income.

   • 1982, Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The conspiracy and years of exile, 1805-1836, page 345:

     Often the meals were cold, the colonel having neither coal nor faggots to burn on his Franklinized hearth.

3. To electrically stimulate.
   • 1884, The Eclectic Medical Journal - Volume 44, page 136:

     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.

   • 1903, The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic - Volume 90, page 154:

     The identical result has been obtained in faradic electrification of muscle tissue. Thirdly, there occurs in properly Franklinized subjects a notable increase in body weight.

   • 1905, Archives of Physiological Therapy - Volumes 1-2, page 274:

     Capriati and Pisani have shown by the ergograph that fatigue shows itself much later in Franklinized muscles than in the normal state.

Etymology 2

Franklin +‎ -ize from Franklin Planner

Alternative forms

• franklinize

Verb

Franklinize (third-person singular simple present Franklinizes, present participle Franklinizing, simple past and past participle Franklinized)

1. (transitive) To arrange according to the Franklin Planner system of time management.
   • 1988, Proceedings of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association:

     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.

   • 1998, Michael F. Staley, Igniting the Leader Within:

     Let's Franklinize Your Schedule First, get a yellow pad and a pen.

   • 2001, Simone P. Joyaux, Strategic Fund Development, page 268:

     For example: A few years ago, I became “franklinized,” and now I use the Franklin Planner to manage my time and hold people accountable.