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superˈficialize, v.
[f. superficial + -ize.]
†1. trans. To make a surface of (paint or colour); also transf. to cover (the cheeks) with a surface of paint, to paint. Obs. rare.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 159 That colour on their cheeks you behold superficializ'd, is but sir Iohn whites, or sir Iohn Red-caps liuery. 1633[see superficialized].
b. fig. To put a surface or gloss upon; to gloss over. rare.
1849Whipple Lit. & Life vi. (1851) 98 It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil; to spread a little cold cream over Pandemonium.
2. intr. To treat a subject or do something superficially.
1656Blount Glossogr., Superficialize, to do any thing on the outside, or not throughly. 1871Galaxy (N.Y.) Mar. 328 (Cent.) Better to elaborate the history of Greece or of Rome or of England than to superficialize in general history.
3. trans. To render superficial, give a superficial character to.
1828Pusey Hist. Enq. i. 138 Morus and Koppe superficialized still further the Christian ideas. 1863M. Pattison in National Rev. Jan. 217 It is a necessary consequence of the advance of education that every subject becomes vulgarised and superficialised.
Hence superˈficialized ppl. a., superˈficializing vbl. n.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 14 (1865) 484/1 Were it not for superficialized Cheeks, and enticing dresses, the most graceless lecher would abhor them. 1828Pusey Hist. Enq. i. 129 The first theologians..gave occasion to the superficializing or the rejection of Christian doctrine. 1907Catholic Weekly 27 Dec. 1/5 The long school hours to which children are being subjected will soon breed a race of superficialised prigs. |