Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Generification \Ge*ner`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. genus kind, class +
   -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {-fy}.]
   The act or process of generalizing.

         Out of this the universal is elaborated by
         generification.                          --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.