anticize en · VERB
Etymology
From antic + -ize.
Meanings
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(intransitive, rare) To perform antics.
Could the orb sweep those puny particles It just half-lights at distance, hardly leads I' the leash — sweep out each speck of them from space They anticize in with their days and nights […]
1871, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau:Most musicians are convinced that this kind of information is designed for doctors and dentists, whom they regard as hopelessly addicted to stereophonic anticizing, right down to locomotive and automobile noises.
1966, The Music Journal, volume 24, page 79:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| anticizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| anticizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| anticized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| anticized | Tense=Past | lexicographic |