Ramify vs Arborize - What's the difference?
ramify | arborize |
To divide into branches or subdivisions.
* 1893 , Henry Morris, Human Anatomy , page 648
(figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
* 2003 , Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality , page 285
As verbs the difference between ramify and arborize
is that ramify is to divide into branches or subdivisions while arborize is .ramify
English
Verb
- The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.
- to ramify an art, subject, scheme .
- My 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.