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dramatize, v.|ˈdræmətaɪz|
[f. as dramatist + -ize.]
1. a. trans. To convert into a drama; to put into dramatic form, adapt for representation on the stage.
1780–83[see dramatized]. 1810Scott Fam. Lett. 22 Dec., They are busy dramatizing the Lady of the Lake here and in Dublin. 1884Law Times 27 Sept. 358/2 The play ‘Called Back,’ dramatised from the novel of that name.
b. absol. To write dramas.
1814Sortes Horatianae 125 Scrawl, dramatize..do what ye will. 1900Daily News 28 May 4/1 The glorious language in which Milton sang, Shakespeare dramatised, Richard Baxter prayed, and George Whitfield thundered.
2. To describe or represent dramatically. refl. To behave melodramatically.
1823Adolphus in Lockhart Scott Aug., To exert the talent of dramatizing and..representing in his own person the incidents he told of. 1894Howells in Harper's Mag. Feb. 383 The men continue to dramatize a struggle on the floor below. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. viii. 620 My mother dramatized herself, indeed, but so artlessly that I rebelled against that.
3. intr. (for pass.) To admit of dramatization.
1819Scott Fam. Lett. 15 June, The present set..will not dramatize. 1836New Monthly Mag. XLVII. 235 The story would dramatize admirably.
4. trans. To influence by the drama. nonce-use.
1799Morn. Chron. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1800) III. 154 Some might take their station in the theatres, and dramatize the audience into loyalty.
Hence ˈdramatized ppl. a., ˈdramatizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. (also fig.); also ˈdramatizable a., (Webster, 1864); ˈdramatizer, one who dramatizes.
1780–83W. Tooke Russia (Webster 1828), A dramatized extract from the history of the Old and New Testaments. 1833Westm. Rev. XVIII. 226 The dramatizer of Cooper's ‘Pilot’. a1834Lamb Charac. Dram. Writers, Rowley Wks. 530 Our delicacy..forbids the dramatising of distress. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) V. xli. 99 The dramatized histories of the English bard. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims Wks. (Bohn) III. 221 A sort of dramatizing talent. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere II. xviii. 107 Oh, to fall at her feet, and ask her pardon before parting for ever! But no—no more posing; no more dramatizing. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. viii. 620 Accident threw me in my receptive years mostly among non-dramatizing systematic-minded people. |