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championize, v. rare.|ˈtʃæmpɪənaɪz|
[see -ize. Cf. It. campioneggiare (Florio).]
†1. intr. To play the champion. Obs.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Vocation, With a Blunted blade, To Championize under a Tented shade As at your Tourneys. 1637Heywood Dial. Man-hater Wks. 1874 VI. 190 To championise and wrestle.
2. trans. To act as champion of.
1840A. Strickland Queens Eng. III. 48 Louis duke of Orleans..undertook to championize her wrongs.
Hence ˈchampionism nonce-wd., action of championing; professed championship.
1877Academy 10 Mar. 206 Matthew Arnold's championism of Falkland..is just and excellent. |