| 释义 |
ˈsirenize, v. Now rare.
Also 6 syranyze.
[f. siren n. + -ize.]
trans. To delight or charm; to allure or enchant. Also intr. (quot. 1656).
1584H. Constable Diana vii. viii, Thy transparent eyes..Whose dumbe conceits diuinely syranyze. 1592G. Harvey Four Lett. iv. Wks. (Grosart) I. 212 That same gentle kindnes,..that abandoned odious Hatred; That Sirenized Furies. 1623Cockeram i, Syrenize, to enchaunt, to bewitch. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sirenize, to play the Siren, to attract or allure, as Sirens do with singing.
b. To charm out of a certain state.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 123 What soule is so metaphusicall subtile, that can humorously sirenize heauens soule, Iehovah, out of the concealments of his Godhead? |