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Laconize, v.|ˈlækənaɪz|
[ad. Gr. λακωνίζειν, f. λάκων Laconian: see -ize.]
1. intr. To favour the Lacedæmonians; to imitate their customs or mode of speech; to side with them in politics.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 205 If he be disposed to laconize a little..he would..say: He is not. 1792–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 392/1 The philosopher assures those who in other cities imagined they laconised..that they were grossly deceived.
2. trans. To bring under the Lacedæmonian dominion or form of government.
a1873Lytton Pausanias ii. iii. (1878) 420 We will Laconise all Hellas.
Hence ˈLaconizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1792–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 393/1 The very instances which Plato supplies of this ‘laconising’ are two most venerable proverbs. 1869A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece II. iii. ii. 372 The dangerous consequences of his Laconizing tendency. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 118 The mistake of the Laconizing set in supposing [etc.]. |