personize
verbEtymology From person + -ize.
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Archaic To personify.
- Milton has personized them.1734, Jonathan Richardson, Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost:
- 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:
1 more example
- If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer1762, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:
- Related terms
- personalize