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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

personize en · VERB

Etymology

From person + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
personizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
personizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
personized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
personized Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

personalize