cardinalize

verb3

1. •
   to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
2. •
   To exalt to the office of a cardinal.

   • It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all — 1690
3. •
   (literary, rare) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.

   • the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling — 1653