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gallantize, v. Now rare.|ˈgæləntaɪz|
[f. gallant + -ize. Cf. F. galantiser to treat with gallantry.]
1. intr. To play the gallant; esp. in to gallantize it.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. v. (1632) 490 So they may gallantize and flush it in noveltie. 1611Cotgr., se Gorgiaser, to flaunt, braue, or gallantize it. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Gallantize, to play the Gallant. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 325 They do ponder on noughte but how to gallantize it at balls, routs, and fandangoes.
2. trans. To play the gallant to (a woman); to court.
1728Morgan Algiers II. iii. 239 The meanest..never furnish their Visitors with such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other Novelists..would insinuate. 1736EIiza Stanley tr. Hist. Prince Titi 22 A certain Privy Counsellor, who..gallantised all the young Girls he came near. 1872Lytton Parisians ix. iii, There was a gal..whom I gallantised. |