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historize, v. Now rare or Obs.|ˈhɪstəraɪz|
[f. histor-y n. + -ize: cf. botanize, etc.]
1. trans. To tell the history of; to narrate or relate as history. ? Obs.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 8 Euen those Legends of Saints and tales at which children..smile, are there solemnly historized in their Cathedrall Pulpits. c1645Howell Lett. ii. lxiii. (1655) 89 Sir W. Rawleigh..whose Fame shall contend in longævity..with that great World which he Historiseth so gallantly. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 220 note.
†2. To represent, display. Obs. rare.
1645Evelyn Dairy 6 May, A long and spacious walk, full of fountaines, under which is historized the whole Ovidian Metamorphosis in rarely sculptur'd mezzo relievo.
3. intr. or absol. To compose history or narrative, to act the historian.
1632[see historizing below]. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. Introd. Verses, While Druyd-like..Under their blooming shade I historize. 1838B. Corney Controversy 22 You have..attempted to historize, to ratiocinate, to sentimentalize.
Hence ˈhistorizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena To Rdr. A iv, I mean an historicall way of Poetizing, or Poeticall manner of historizing, or displaying of the fained..adventures and actions of persons reall. 1647Torshell Design to Harmonize Bible in Phenix (1721) I. 106 An Harmonious historizing of the Psalms. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 103 In use among the historizing or exemplarizing atsrologers. |