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testimonialize, v.|tɛstɪˈməʊnɪəlaɪz|
[f. prec. + -ize.]
trans. To furnish with a letter of recommendation; also, to present with a public testimonial: see testimonial n. 4 and 5. (In quot. 1899 Improperly, To ask for testimonials.)
1852Tait's Mag. XIX. 344 Hanging is going out of fashion, and testimonialising is coming in. 1855Thackeray Newcomes lxiii, People were testimonialising his wife. 1886West. Morn. News 27 Apr. 4/6 Sir E― H― is to be testimonialised. 1899C. Scott Drama of Yesterday I. xii. 417, I resolved..to testimonialise the influential friends of my father.
Hence testiˈmonialized ppl. a.; testiˈmonializing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also testiˌmonialiˈzation, celebration by means of testimonials; testiˈmonializer, one who furnishes, or contributes to, a testimonial.
1898G. B. Shaw in Daily Chron. 13 Oct. 4/4 The celebration and *testimonialisation of remarkable events and eminent men will always be cherished in England as a means of procuring notoriety for noisy nobodies.
1893Chamb. Jrnl. 11 Mar. 145/1 A much *testimonialised medicine.
1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 386 The *testimonialisers threw themselves into the business with a truly heroical enthusiasm.
1891E. Kinglake Australian at H. 53 *Testimonialising has been rather overdone of late. |