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feminize, v.|ˈfɛmɪnaɪz|
[f. L. fēmin-a + -ize. Cf. Fr. féminiser.]
1. a. trans. To make feminine or womanish; to give a feminine cast to (a description). b. intr. To become or grow feminine.
1652,1653[see feminized]. 1776‘Courtney Melmoth’ [S. T. Pratt] Pupil of Pleas. II. 98 It only served the more to feminize..and to recommend her to the spectator. 1790A. M. Johnson Monmouth I. 175 Let not an idea of her feminize a soul that should now burn but for glory and a crown. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 81 Feminize this description..and you see Harriette. 1866Ch. Times 6 Jan. 2/3 Any more than a boy is feminized by learning music. 1892Nation 21 July 45/2 May it not be said that he feminized him too much?
b.1852Blackw. Mag. LXXI. 85 The women..would make those present look very small..but that they are feminising.
2. trans. Biol. To induce female sexual characteristics in.
1922[see feminization 2]. 1924G. R. de Beer Growth ix. 62 By grafting a male gland into a female the latter can be masculinized, and a male can be feminized by the converse graft. 1962D. J. B. Ashley Human Intersex iv. 60 Parabiosis experiments on primitive vertebrates showed inversion of sex in either direction, males were feminized and females masculinized.
Hence ˈfeminized ppl. a., ˈfeminizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1652Wright tr. Camus' Nature's Paradox 113 Her vigorous exertion made them incline to the thought of her beeing a Male Feminiz'd. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. 45 The Serpent said to the feminized Adam. 1867Ch. Times 6 July 236/4 The feminizing of the clerical mind is one of..many..evils. 1890Harper's Mag. July 320/1 The husband, if he has become sufficiently..feminized, may go to the House. 1962D. J. B. Ashley Human Intersex v. 75 Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones. |