angularizev.
/ˈaŋɡjᵿlərʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡjələˌraɪz/ transitive. To make angular in form or character; to cause to have angles or corners.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > make angular or furnish with angles or corners [verb (transitive)]
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1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 197 In the progress of years this roundness is angularized.
1854 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words Christmas 26/1 A longer me—my shadow—walked before me,..angularising its elongated legs like drowsy compasses.
1855 Househ. Words 12 423 [The habit] had angularised her chin and cheek-bones.
1930 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 98 The skill with which he had angularized the soft Neapolitan lips and nose of the Prince.
1976 Art Jrnl. 36 19/1 Courbet's dog is drawn in a flat, angularized childish depiction.
1993 Jewish Hist. 7 110 Traditional objects have been broken up, flattened out, angularized, cut in sections, [etc.].
Derivatives
ˈangularized adj. made angular in form or character.Recorded earliest in well-angularized.
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1849 Dublin Rev. Sept. 148 Sometimes the animal, or sensitive and locomotive, portion of the advertisement, is as safely ensconsed in a quadrilateral, well-angularized shell, as any of the crustacea.
1863 Temple Bar Apr. 42 The serene temper has become acidulated and angularised.
1925 Art Bull. 7 93 It [sc. a ‘bird’ motif] resolves itself into two angularized arabesque leaves.
2000 RES Autumn 160/1 (caption) An angularized representation of twisted strands marks the upper and lower boundaries of a feline face.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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