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hyperbolize, v. Now rare.|haɪˈpɜːbəlaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize. Cf. F. hyperboliser.]
1. intr. To use hyperbole; to exaggerate.
1599Broughton's Lett. ii. 10 Will you hyperbolize aboue S. Gregorie, who is contented to marshall the foure generall Councels? 1632G. Hughes Saints Losse 52 If I should tell all, I should..seeme to hyperbolize. 1656S. H. Gold. Law 90 God in Scripture allows of Titles;..nay, God doth hyperbolize it, and saith of al Powers, You are Gods. 1783Blair Rhet. xvi. I. 321 The person..who was under the distracting agitations of grief, might be permitted to hyperbolize strongly.
2. trans. To express or represent hyperbolically; † to extol or praise extravagantly; to exaggerate.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 41 Glosses hyperbolizing the flatteries of the Canonists. 1660Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 26 Of the Fruit or Nuts of these Trees is made the so fam'd Chocoletta, whose virtues are hiperboliz'd upon every post in London. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 271 He has hyperbolized the Spanish hyperbolical salutation, ‘May you live a thousand years!’ 1814Edin. Rev. XXIV. 40 Surprising events which were but moderately hyperbolized at the time.
Hence hyˈperbolizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. vii. §6 (1622) 272 The rhetoricall amplification of hyperbolizing Orators. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. v. §89. 291 This had been without hyperbolizing, Mundus contra Athanasium. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. xv. 233 If I gave no credit to their hyberbolizing fancies. |