单词 | -ize |
释义 | -izesuffix Forming verbs. In current English the following groups may be noted: 1. Words that have come down from Greek, or have been at some time adopted from Greek, or formed on Greek elements. a. With the transitive sense of ‘make or conform to, or treat in the way of, the thing expressed by the derivation’, as baptize (probably the earliest -ize word in English), anathematize, anatomize, apostrophize, canonize, catechize, cauterize, characterize, christianize, crystallize, diphthongize, harmonize, idolize, monopolize, organize, phlebotomize, stigmatize, symbolize, systematize, tantalize. b. With the intransitive sense ‘to act some person or character, do or follow some practice’, as agonize, apologize, apostatize, botanize, dogmatize, geologize, philosophize, syllogize, sympathize, theorize. 2. Words formed (in French or English) on Latin adjectives and nouns (esp. on derivative adjectives in -al, -ar, -an, etc.), mostly with the transitive sense ‘to make (that which is expressed by the derivation)’, as actualize, authorize, brutalize, civilize, colonize, consonantize, devocalize, eternize, etherealize, familiarize, fertilize, formalize, fossilize, humanize, immortalize, legalize, memorize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, patronize, pulverize, realize, satirize, scrutinize, secularize, signalize, solemnize, spiritualize, sterilize, terrorize, vocalize; trans. or intrans., as cicatrize, extemporize, moralize, particularize; less frequently only intransitive, as temporize. 3. Words from later sources, as bastardize, foreignize, jeopardize, villanize, womanize trans., gormandize, and such nonce-words as cricketize, pedestrianize, tandemize, intr. 4. Words formed on ethnic adjectives, and the like, chiefly transitive but sometimes intransitive, as Americanize, Anglicize, Gallicize, Germanize, Latinize, Romanize, Russianize. 5. Words formed on names of persons, sometimes with the intransitive Greek sense of ‘to act like, or in accordance with’, as in Calvinize, Coryatize, but usually in the transitive sense of ‘to treat like, or after the method of, or according to the (chemical or other) process of’; as in Boucherize, Bowdlerize, Burnettize, galvanize, Grangerize, macadamize, mesmerize, Rumfordize; with many technical and commercial terms, and nonce-words such as Gladstonize, Irvingize, Joe Millerize, Merry-Andrewize, without limit. 6. From names of substances, chemical and other; in the transitive sense of ‘to charge, impregnate, treat, affect, or influence with’; as alcoholize, alkalize, carbonize, de-oxidize, hydrogenize, oxidize, ozonize, silverize, etc.; so in nonce-words, as Londonize to make like London, etc. ΚΠ 1594 T. Nashe Christs Teares (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. **ijv Reprehenders, that complain of my boystrous compound wordes, and ending my Italionate coyned verbes all in ize. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Inpetrarcato, Petrarchized. 1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage sig. E2 I haue a smacke of Coriatizing. 1682 T. D'Urfey Butler's Ghost ii. 177 Ralpho..takes the Tongs..and snaps him by the Nose..surpriz'd, To be thus rudely dunstaniz'd. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. I. 209 We might Rumfordize one of the chimneys. 1833 Blackwood's Mag. 34 533 It is a taste that, to coin a word, insignificantizes everything—unpoetizes nature. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 492 Tandemizing, cricketizing, boatizing, et omne quod exit in izing, is not to be carried on without a considerable expenditure. 1858 Sat. Rev. 5 264/2 He has no fear of Tower-Hamletizing the land. 1858 Sat. Rev. 6 203/2 To Perkin-Warbeckize a pretender is the best, because not the most spirited, policy. 1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange viii. 58 Arch-quacks..have taken to merry-andrewising in a new arena. 1866 Sat. Rev. 10 Nov. If a man..is funny, and succeeds in Joe-Millerizing history, he pleases somebody or other. 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 164 Of the first class [Preservation of Timber] the three best known processes are: (a) Burnetising, (b) Kyanising, and (c) Boucherising. 1881 Mahaffy in Academy 23 Apr. 295 She does not Irvingise Shylock. 1885 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Shelley II. 192 The troop of nakedized children rushed downstairs. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 7/3 These instruments, before they are used, should always be strictly anti-septicized. 1897 A. Lang in Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 187 To do this is not to Celticise but to Macphersonise. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 28 July 6/1 The word ‘Klondykised’ has been coined to express the conditions of persons who have caught the mania [for seeking gold at Klondyke]... The effect has been to ‘Klondykise’ nearly all the people of the town. 1898 L. A. Tollemache Talks with Gladstone 114 (note) It [the passage] is, as it were, Canning Gladstonized. 1917 I. Gurney Let. 24 Aug. (1991) 310, I hope you are still Excelsiorising. 1973 W. J. Kennedy Let. 24 Sept. in H. S. Thompson Fear & Loathing in America (2000) 538, I tried to call you the other day and found you had re-listed and clandestinized your number. a1982 L. Bangs in N.Y. Times (1999) 5 Sept. ar26/1 An exhaustive catalogue of various methods by which one may so Stradivarize the heartstrings of the L.A.P.D. that [etc.]. 2002 Esquire Sept. 110/1 Its ingredients are a virtual synopsis of what other directors of sci-fi dystopias have been fooling with for twenty years—co-opted, magnified, and triumphantly Spielbergized. 2012 Atlantic June 41/3 If you think he's going to settle for this, for exile, for blustering and bunkum-izing in an Internet backwater to a few hundred thousand true believers, then you don't know [him]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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