Past tense of categorize; having sorted or arranged something into specific groups or categories.
Past tense of categorize (American spelling with 'z'), from category plus the verbal suffix -ize and past tense -ed.
Once something is categorized, it becomes psychologically 'sticky'—we treat it as if that category is a real natural thing, when actually we just decided it was convenient to group it that way.
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