資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Generalize \Gen"er*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Generalized};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Generalizing}.] [Cf. F. g['e]n['e]raliser.]
   1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in
      relation to a genus or to genera.

            Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by
            merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton
            generalized them still more by referring this last
            to the motion of a stone through the air. --W.
                                                  Nicholson.

   2. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more
      extensive application; to extend so as to include all
      special cases; to make universal in application, as a
      formula or rule.

            When a fact is generalized, our discontent is
            quited, and we consider the generality itself as
            tantamount to an explanation.         --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.

   3. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general
      principle) from particulars.

            A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude
            of facts.                             --Coleridge.