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verˈmilionize, v. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
trans. To vermilion. Also fig.
1854Blackw. Mag. LXXVI. 325 The genius of Mr. Owen Jones, which, plunging into colouring matter, would vermilionise the palest face of Death. 1924W. J. Locke Coming of Amos iv. 43 If I had found myself at five-and-twenty with fifty thousand pounds lying at the bank, verily, I believe, I should have vermilionized the cosmos. |