• Ramify

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈræm.ɪ.faɪ/, /ˈræm.É™.faɪ/

    Origin

    From French ramifier, from Medieval Latin *ramificare ("to branch, ramify"), from Latin rāmus ("a branch") + faciō ("do, make").

    Full definition of ramify

    Verb

    1. To divide into branches or subdivisions.
      • 1893, Henry Morris, Human Anatomy, page 648The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.
    2. (figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
      • 2003, Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality, page 285My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field ramifies out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind.

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