cardinalize

to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).

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

To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.

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