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▪ I. gentilize, v.1 arch.|ˈdʒɛntɪlaɪz|
Also 6 gentellise, 7 gentlelize, gentillize, 9 gentilise.
[f. gentil gentle + -ize.]
1. trans. To make gentle; to raise to the position, or invest with the character, of a gentleman.
1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 86 b, [It] is most true, that gentry is the daughter of knowledge: and that knowledge doeth gentellise him that possesseth it. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. 80 Some..of small rent, bring up their children too nicely, and must needs, forsooth, Gentlelize them. 1631R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 360 Where is that in us that may truly gentilize us. a1650May Satir. Puppy (1657) 100 Those that are rich strive to Gentilize their Female Of-spring.
absol.1830Coleridge Table-t. 30 May, Religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilise.
†b. intr. to gentilize it: to act the gentleman.
1607Norden Surv. Dial. 231 But where the master standeth upon tearmes of his qualitie..and will refuse to put..his eye towards the plow, he may..gentlelize it awhile. 1613Wither Abuses Stript (1615) 147 Our Yeomen too, that neuer Armes haue borne To Gentillize it make themselues a scorne.
†c. trans. To refine; civilize. Obs.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1860) 44 It would have gentiliz'd Barbarisme it selfe.
†2. trans. To make mild, to lenify. Obs. rare.
1679Newburgh in Evelyn Pomona 393 Two or three Eggs whole put into an Hogshead of Cider that is become sharp..sometimes rarely lenifies and gentilizes it.
Hence † ˈgentilizing vbl. n. Also gentiliˈzation.
1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. Ep. Ded., A gentleman, who professeth the true and new art of gentilizing. 1825New Monthly Mag. XVI. 277 The gentilization of so homely and culinary a name as Bacon.
▪ II. gentilize, v.2|ˈdʒɛntɪlaɪz, ˈdʒɛntaɪlaɪz|
[f. gentile + -ize.]
1. intr. To live like a Gentile or heathen; to conform to Gentile customs or practices.
1593Bell Motives conc. Rom. Faith Ded. (1605) 1 If Tertullian..erred montanizing..if S. Paul gentilizing [etc.]. 1596― Surv. Popery Postscr., To gentilize is nothing els but to play the part of a gentile. 1680T. Lawson Mite into Treas. 50 They began to Jewdaize, yea, and to Gentilize. 1814,1819[see gentilizing below].
2. trans. To give a gentile character to, make gentile; to paganize.
1827[see gentilized below]. 1883A. Saphir in Bible Soc. Rec. Mar., [Scripture] must not be Paganised or Gentilised, or stripped of its Jewish character.
Hence ˈgentilized, gentiˈlizing ppl. adjs.
a1638Mede Rem. Apoc. iv. Wks. (1672) iii. 588 How long the Church..was to be prophaned..by Gentilizing Idolatry? 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. (1847) 449/1 This is not my conjecture, but drawn from God's known denouncement against the gentilizing Israelites. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXIII. 285 They were both gentilizing Jews and great travellers. 1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 395 Many of the oriental gentilizing converts. 1827― Sacred Cal. Prophecy (1844) II. 231 The completely gentilised members of the Visible Church. 1873G. Rawlinson in Speaker's Comm. Bible III. 471/1 He is not a Gentilised Jew. 1893J. Martineau in 19th Cent. June 924 In the midst of a Christianity preponderantly gentilised. |