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Philippize, v.|ˈfɪlɪpaɪz|
Also philippize.
[ad. Gr. ϕιλιππίζειν (Demosthenes), f. ϕίλιππος Philip: see -ize.]
intr. To favour, or take the side of, Philip of Macedon (cf. Philippic); also gen. to speak or write as one is corruptly ‘inspired’ or influenced: see quots.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. x. 40 What jugling there was therein, the Oratour plainely confessed, who..could say that Pythia Phillippised. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal i. 26 Demosthenes said Apollo's Priestess did Philippize: as..if he had said, Philip had corrupted the Oracle, and put words into the Prophetesses mouth. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 13 Caballers..set him up as a sort of oracle; because, with the best intentions in the world, he naturally philippizes..in exact unison with their designs. 1831De Quincey Whiggism & Lit. Wks. 1857 V. 124 If the oracle at Hatton philippized, the oracle of Göttingen philippized no less. 1875Helps Ess., Advice 46 The oracles will Philippize, as long as Philip is the master.
¶ Erron. used for: To utter a philippic; also trans. to utter a philippic against.
1804D. Webster Let. 17 Sept., Priv. Corr. 1857 I. 179, I philippize against that employment now. 1837Tait's Mag. IV. 163 What a certain set of young literateurs have been lately philippizing against me. 1845S. Judd Margaret iii. (Cent.), He argued with us, philippized us, denounced us.
Hence ˈPhilippizing ppl. a.; also ˈPhilippizer, one who philippizes, a partisan of Philip.
1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 358 An æschines, or a Midias, or the other Philippizers. 1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxviii. XI. 455 The philippising party in that city [Olynthus]. 1856Ibid. xcvi. XII. 484 He acted with æschines and the Philippizers. |