释义 |
proˈverbialize, v. [f. as prec. + -ize.] 1. intr. To make or utter proverbs. Hence proˈverbializing vbl. n.
1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 125, I forbear from any farther Proverbializing. 1818Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 129 Perhaps the best specimen of Sancho's proverbializing. 2. trans. To make or convert into a proverb; to use proverbially; to speak of in a proverb. rare.
a1827Good cited in Webster (1828–32). |