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skeletonize, v.|ˈskɛlɪtənaɪz|
Also 7 skellitonize, 8 sceletonise.
[f. skeleton n. + -ize.]
1. trans. To reduce to a skeleton. Also fig.
1644J. Taylor (Water P.) No Merc. Aulicus 7 Thus.. I have anatomized and skellitonized your railing Pamphlet. 1720W. Stukeley in Mem. (1882) I. 32, I likewise sceletonisd several different sorts of birds. 1747Gentl. Mag. XVII. 488/1, I would propose that the bodies..should be made skeletons, and plac'd in..his own proper chaise, which shall be first skeletoniz'd by a coachmaker. 1807P. Gass Jrnl. 246 Captain Lewis had four of those animals skeletonized. 1865Parrish (title), The Phantom Bouquet: a popular treatise on the art of skeletonizing leaves and seed vessels. 1885W. T. Hornaday 2 Yrs. Jungle v. 51 We skinned and skeletonized many a gavial and large bird.
2. To draw up in outline; to sketch out.
1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 128 We but skeletonize an unknown and unknowable cause in the form of some of its effects. 1882Mozley Remin. (ed. 2) I. 75 Long before Simeon was skeletonising our sermons.
absol.1869Shedd Homiletics iv. 94 This homiletic habit will appear in a disposition to skeletonize.
3. intr. To become a skeleton.
1831Lincoln Herald 23 Dec. 3/6 Are our shipwrights skeletonising on air? 1879Scribner's Monthly XIX. 182 His brethren gathered to bear him down, And lay him away to skeletonize.
Hence ˌskeletoniˈzation, reduction to a skeleton; ˈskeletonized ppl. a., reduced to a skeleton; drawn up in outline; also, possessing or having developed a skeleton; ˈskeletonizer, an insect which reduces leaves to a skeleton; ˈskeletonizing vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1795Southey Let. in C. C. Southey Life (1849) I. 252 Perhaps the climate may agree with me, and counteract a certain habit of *skeletonisation.
1834Gentl. Mag. CIV. i. 185 The *skeletonized Death, with all the animation of a living person. 1857Taylor Hist. Antiq. Cupar 17 The Revolution consigned the skeletonised remains to their present resting place. 1885Sir P. Perring Hard Knots 215 Yet have we here..a skeletonized sentence, or rather a succession of skeletonized sentences. 1976Nature 29 Jan. 271/1 Some 500 million years ago..all but two of the living phyla that are well skeletonised had already appeared. 1978Sci. Amer. Sept. 108/1 These durable skeletonized invertebrates seem to have one thing in common: they all originally lived on the sea floor rather than burrowing in it.
1891Cent. Dict. s.v., The apple-leaf *skeletonizer, Pempelia hammondi.
1869Shedd Homiletics viii. 186 note, *Skeletonizing is to sermonizing what drawing is to painting. 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 48 Complete skeletonizing of a bird is a special art of some difficulty. 1885Athenæum 14 Nov. 640/2 Observations as to definite layers [in leaves] and the relation of these to the skeletonizing process. |