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scandalize en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈskændəlaɪz/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin scandalizō, from Ancient Greek σκανδαλίζω (skandalízō). By surface analysis, scandal + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause great offense to (someone); to shock with something scandalous.
   • When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 62:
   • Woe to thee who art often wandering abroad, and spendest thy time unprofitably, and scandalizest others. 1881, Thomas à Kempis; T[homas] T[hellusson] Carter, reviser and editor, “The Valley of Lilies”, in Instructions for Religious, London: J. Masters and Co., […]; and J. Pott, […], New York, chapter XV (Of persevering with Constancy in the Order and Monastery which we have chosen), page 45:
   • Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp.
   • Thou scandalizest me and irritatest my nature as much as it possibly can be irritated. 1896, Ernest Rénan, translated by Eleanor Grant Vickery, Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing “The Tempest” of William Shakespeare (Publications of The Shakespeare Society of New York; No. 9), New York, N.Y.: The Shakespeare Press; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., page 19:
   • Kautsky put this forward as a general hypothesis and not something that was bound to occur, but Lenin was scandalized by the idea of capitalism without wars, a state of affairs in which revolutions too would be much less likely. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 492:
2. (archaic, transitive) To reproach.
3. (archaic, transitive) To disgrace.
4. (archaic, transitive) To libel; to create scandal about (someone or something).

Forms

Deriveds

scandalizable · scandalization · scandalize the court · scandalizer

Translations (10)

ca escandalitzar (to cause great offense) · mk скандализира (to cause great offense) · it scandalizzare (to cause great offense) · fr scandaliser (to cause great offense) · fi skandalisoida (to cause great offense) · sh skandalizírati (to cause great offense) · sv skandalisera (to cause great offense) · ro scandaliza (to cause great offense) · pt escandalizar (to cause great offense) · es escandalizar (to cause great offense)

scandalize en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈskændəlaɪz/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From scantle.

Meanings

1. To reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (e.g. slacking the peak and tricing up the tack) without properly reefing, thus slowing boat speed.
   • The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.] 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:

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