"scientify" meaning in English

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          "text": "I am aware it is not so flattering to scientify men into atoms, as if, with others, I were to mystify them into angels. But I can only regret to find it impossible to humour them in this serious matter, consistly with their own interest and that of truth.",
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          "ref": "2013 October 22, Alan Levinovitz, “Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine”, in Slate:",
          "text": "Textbooks were written that portrayed Chinese medicine as a theoretical and practical whole, and they were taught in newly founded academies of so-called “traditional Chinese medicine,” […]. Needless to say, the academies were anything but traditional, striving valiantly to “scientify” the teachings of classics that often contradicted one another and themselves.",
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        "To make scientific; to subject to scientific rules."
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        "(transitive) To make scientific; to subject to scientific rules."
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        {
          "word": "scientize"
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  "word": "scientify"
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