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attitudinize, v.|ætɪˈtjuːdɪnaɪz|
[f. It. attitudine (see above) + -ize.]
1. intr. To practise attitudes studiously or excessively; to strike an attitude; to pose, posture.
1784Johnson in Boswell (1831) V. 220 He had a great aversion to gesticulating in company. He called once to a gentleman who offended him in that point, ‘Don't attitudinise.’ 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lug. ii. iv. 74 Sobbing and attitudinizing and looking dolorously. 1837Dickens Sk. Boz. (1837) II. 103 The elegant Sparkins attitudinized with admirable effect.
2. fig. To practise affected and self-conscious deportment, or to speak or write in a corresponding manner, in order to produce an effect upon spectators.
1864Fraser's Mag Apr. 404 When Audley Egerton attitudinizes and works out the regulation of an iron exterior and an iron heart. 1879Froude Cæsar xiv. 194 In every line that he wrote Cicero was attitudinising for posterity. 1882Atl. Monthly July 105 Even the leaders of the Southern Confederacy sometimes attitudinized for an awe-stricken world to see.
3. To go to excess in representing attitudes in painting or sculpture. |