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Gothicize, v.|ˈgɒθɪsaɪz|
[f. Gothic a. + -ize.]
†1. intr. To indulge one's taste for what is ‘Gothic’ or mediæval. Obs.—1
1750H. Walpole Let. H. Mann 1 Sept. (1833) II. 385 Mr. Whithed has been so unlucky to have a large part of his seat..burnt down; it is a great disappointment to me, too, who was going thither gothicizing.
2. trans.
a. To give a ‘Gothic’ or mediæval look or character to; to render mediæval.
1808Advt. to Strutt's Queen-Hoo Hall p. iv, The language and manners of the higher ranks are not gothicized. 1843Fraser's Mag. XXVIII. 16 He had early begun to Gothicise it—to stock it with rusty armour and painted glass. 1852Hawthorne Wonder-Bk., Tanglewood Fire⁓side (1879) 148 Your imagination..will inevitably Gothicize everything you touch. 1870― Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) I. 82 The statue..was overgrown..with moss and lichens, so that its classic beauty was in some sort gothicized. 1881Sala in Illustr. Lond. News 15 Jan. 51 Garments so Gothicised as to give them a vague resemblance to English matrons and damsels of the 14th and 15th centuries.
b. To give an architecturally Gothic character to; to transform after a Gothic type.
1798A. Seward Let. 2 Oct. (1811) V. 155 The tenements are to be gothicized. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Old Benchers I.T., They have lately gothicised the entrance to the Inner Temple-hall and the library front. 1824in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 565 That..the Provost be hereby authorized..to Gothicise Gibbs's Building. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. xiv. 160 Arabic forms of parapet, more or less Gothicised. 1877J. C. Cox Ch. Derbysh. II. 349 A pointed east window [was] inserted, and the windows on the South side ‘Gothicised.’
Hence ˈGothicized ppl. a. Also ˈGothicizer, one who gothicizes.
1804Ann. Reg. 828 Gothicised cottages. 1827Scott Jrnl. 3 Oct., The gingerbread taste of modern Gothicisers. 1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 392 Those gothicized severities of the German school. |