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emphasize, v.|ˈɛmfəsaɪz|
Also -ise.
[f. emphasis + -ize.]
trans. To impart emphasis to (anything); to lay stress upon (a word or phrase in speaking); to add force to (speech, arguments, actions, etc.); to lay stress upon, bring into special prominence (a fact, idea, feature in a representation, etc.).
1828in Webster. 1845Dickens Cricket on Hearth iii. (Househ. ed.) 106 This philanthropic wish Miss Slowboy emphasized with various new raps and kicks at the door. 1855W. A. Nicholls Nat. Draw. Master 8 Accustoming the hand to emphasize strokes in every possible variety of manner. 186.Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Prof. Misc. Works IV. 18 My conversion made some noise..being emphasised as it were by this fact. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iii. 44 Gesticulation goes along with speech to..emphasize it. 1869Ouseley Counterp. xix. 156 When the change to the tonic, or dominant..is emphasized..by a longer note than the rest. 1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. 432 The Present with..Its indistinctness emphasized. 1882Howells in Longm. Mag. I. 45 The spruces and firs..emphasise the nakedness of all the other trees. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. iv. 215 The emphasis of phrases may remain, but the point emphasised has been blunted.
Hence ˈemphasized ppl. a.
1855W. A. Nicholls Nat. Drawing Master 8 The production of emphasized strokes. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 884 And talked with measured, emphasised reserve. |