Organize /(ôr"gan*īz)/

Or·gan·ize

Organize

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Organized; p. pr. & vb. n. Organizing

  1. To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. (Biol.)
    These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.
  2. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
    This original and supreme will organizes the government.
    — Cranch.
  3. To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. (Mus.) [R.]