Boswellizev.
1. intransitive. To write in Boswell's style.
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1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 7 But I have been Boswellizing to you about the past history of these friends of mine.
2. transitive. To treat in the Boswellian manner; to observe and record the actions, etc. of (someone).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > write biography of [verb (transitive)]
biograph1776
biographize1793
biography1794
Boswellize1837
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. v. 151 Private lucubrations..designed to Boswellize Scott.
1855 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 22 444/2 We had rather the many-sided man should remain to us the mystery he is, than be Boswellised after the fashion which is now current.
1912 A. Lang Shakespeare, Bacon & Great Unknown ii. 29 There was no enthusiastic curiosity about him; nobody Boswellised any playwright of his time.
1921 Spectator 20 Aug. 239 The Queen's early Diaries wherein she Boswellized Lord Melbourne.
Derivatives
ˈBoswellized adj.
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1927 Glasgow Herald 2 June 4 A Boswellised life of Carlyle.
ˈBoswellizing n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer
Boswellizing1838
Lucianism1937
1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 488 Boswellizing became in fashion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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