personize en · VERB
Etymology
From person + -ize.
Meanings
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(archaic) To personify.
If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer
1762, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:Fletcher, in personizing the passions and not drawing from real life[…]
1778, Mr. Seward, “Preface”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher:Milton has personized them.
1734, Jonathan Richardson, Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| personizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| personizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| personized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| personized | Tense=Past | lexicographic |