diamondize en · VERB
Etymology
From diamond + -ize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To set with diamonds; to adorn or enrich (with diamonds, or in general).
[F]or the more modellizing, or enamelling, or rather diamondizing of your ſubiect, you ſhall perceiue the Hipotheſis, or Galaxia, (vvhereof the Meteors long ſince had their Initiall inceptions and Notions) to be meerely Pithagoricall, Mathematicall, and Aristocraticall: […]
1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, signature I, recto:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| diamondizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| diamondized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| diamondized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| diamondizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |