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Neologisms of Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham coined many new words of which international, maximize, and minimize are the most well-known.

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1) international

1780, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation,

2) maximize

Chapter XVII, 'Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence'. XXV. In the second place, with regard to the political quality of the persons whose conduct is the object of the law. These may, on any given occasion, be considered either as members of the same state, or as members of different states: in the first ease, the law may be referred to the head of internal, in the second case, to that of internationalx jurisprudence. x The word international, it must be acknowledged, is a new one; though, it is hoped, sufficiently analogous and intelligible. It is calculated to express, in a more significant way, the branch of law which goes commonly under the name of the law of nations: an appellation so uncharaeteristic, that, were it not for the force of custom, it would seem rather to refer to internal jurisprudence. The chancellor D'Aguesseau has already made, I find, a similar remark (Œvres, Tom. ii. p. 337, edit. 1773, 12.no.): he says that what is commonly called droit des gens, ought rather to be termed droit entre les gens. 1802, Principles of Judicial Procedure, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, XI volumes (Edinburgh: 1843). Vol. II. 8/2

2a) maximization

By this means, appropriate moral aptitude may be maximized. 1817 'Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction', "Legislator of the World": Writings on Codification, Law, and Education, eds. Philip Schofield and Jonathan Harris, in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998) p. ??

end in view, maximizing the subserviency of the proposed institution, to the public objects to the furtherance of which it is directed; viz. maximization of the quantity and value of the body of intellectual endowment and active talent in the several shapes in question; in other words, maximization of the extent, as measured by the number of the individuals in question: 1823 Leading Principles of a Const. Code The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, XI volumes (Edinburgh: 1843). Vol. II 272

3) minimize

unfavourable to the maximization of felicity itself 1802, Principles of Judicial Procedure, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, XI volumes (Edinburgh: 1843). Vol. II 8

The adjective branch..may be said to have two specific ends: the one positive, maximizing the execution and effect given to the substantive branch: the other negative, minimizing the evil [etc.]. 1825 Official Aptitude Maximized; Expense Minimized, ed. Philip Schofield (Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1993), 'Observations on Mr. Secretary. Peel's House of Commons Speech'. (1830) 27

abstractiveness1818
accusatorial1823
adventurefula1832
alleviating1789
ambilaterala1832
antagonising1810
antembletic1780
arrangeablea1832
assumingnessa1832
astuteness1843
bicamerala1832
Cacotopia1818
characteristicalness1789
characterizable1818
codification1817
codifier1830
codifyc1800
cognitional1827
collaborator1802
compensational1824
confederativec1819
confessionalist1827
conjecturist1828
consignable1808
contestational1826
contrectative1786
co-proprietor1796
counter-interrogation1808
counter-title1808
cryptodynamic1816
deceptitious1827
deckless1823
demandative1820
denegatory1823
deontologicala1832
deontologista1832
deontology1826
detachable1818
deteriorative1800
disaffirmativea1832
disambiguation1827
disburdenment,
-burthenment
1818
disceptatorial1810
discolourment1810
disfulfil1818
disintegrity1785
dislocable1827
dislocatee1827
dislocative1827
dismurdered,
-murderized
1817
dispensatorial1776
disposee1826
disprobabilize1827
disprobative1823
divestitive1802
dyslogistic1802
educlorate1810
etymologizationa1831
eudaimonologya1832
eudemonic,
-dæmonic
a1832
evidentiary1810
exaltative1810
exclusionary1817
exculpative1827
exemplificative1826
exemptive1827
exhaustive1786
exhaustively1816
exhaustiveness1816
fiscality1825
gaeosity1802
hermitish1812
holography1801
humiliative1810
hygiantic1816
imperation1786
improbabilize1820
inadmissibility1802
incognoscibility1824
inculpative1802
indemnificator1802
independable1802
indispellable1817
inexcludible1816
inexclusively1789
inexigible1818
inexplicit1802
inexpressiveness1816
infirmation1808
inflictable1810
informational1810
infra- 
inspectable1816
institutionalist1803
insurable1810
interconvertible1802
international1780
interpolative1817
interrogable1802
intriguant1781
invalidship1830
investigatorial1808
irrecusable1776
laconicalness1830
legislatorial1774
lengthiness1829
liberalist1802
locablea1816
locatee1816
locating1802
locupletative 
macadamizing1826
manageability1776
marginalizea1832
marginalizer1832
martyrizer1810
mathetic1816
mathetico-1816
maximization1802
maximize1802
meliorability1811
mesology1831
metamorphotic1816
methodization1827
milligrade1826
minimization1802
minimize1802
minutation 1802
misappellation1816
misapprehensible1829
misdecide1802
misdecision1802
misdescribe1827
misexpressive1816
mislocate1816
misrecollect1787
modificanda1832
monarchico-aristocratic(al)1817
monepica1832
monetary1802
morphoscopic1816
noological1811
noology1811
nooscopic1816
obliterative1802
omissible1816
omnicompetent1827
onerative1802
oristic1811
ornability1811
ornamentability1811
over-length1829 
pandemonian1795
paradoxicality1816
pathematic1822
pathologico-1802-1812
Paulism1823
paw-paw1796
percentage1786
perjuriousness1823
perusable1829
philosophization1800
phthisozoics1816
physiurgic1816
placeable1802
plaguesome1828
plunderable1802
pluralism1818
pneumatico-1816
pneumatological1802
poetico-1818
poiology1816
politico-1825
populicide1824
posology1811
post-1780
post-obituary1816
predesignate1823
preferability1802
prehensiblea1832
prehensor1829
preponderantly1823
quisquilious1802
ratiocinatory1810
reauthentication1802
reciprocalize1802
rectilinearity1813
registrator1802
remediation1818
repeatable1802
reserver1807
reswallow1818
retroactivity1829
rivalize1802
Romanistic1802
Romano-1802-12
sageshipa1832
sanatorya1832
sanctionment1802
scribblatory1802
scriptitious1802
secretarial1801
seductionist1817
selenic1816
self-1823
shy1787
sinecurism1817
solicitant1802
somatalogical1816
steadiment1810
sub-district1816
subintellect1811
subjectable1802
submergible1802-12
subornative1802
substantivala1832
subvariety1802
summariness1802
suppletive1816
swallowable1818
thelematic1813
therapeutist1816
transcriptural1802
translocativea1832
trifurcate1811
typification1811
ulteriorly1818
unbridg(e)able1802
unadaptability1829
unaffordable1825
unascertainable1802
unassiduous1776
unavowable1802
unbastilled1817
unburdensomeness1795
uncalculatinga1832
uncircumlocutory1808
unclergiable1802
uncoerced1791
uncognoscibility1802
uncognoscible1810
unconfederated1802
unconspicuous1802
uncoroneted1817
uncounterbalanced1780
uncross-examinable1802
undelusive1817
undespotic1820
undetectible1802
undilatory1802
undisfulfilled1823