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wantonize, v. arch.|ˈwɒntənaɪz|
Also 6–7 wantonnize.
[f. wanton a. and n. + -ize.]
1. intr. To play the wanton; to dally, sport, frolic; to indulge in lasciviousness.
1592Daniel Rosamond K 3 b, Sweetly it fits the fair to wantonise. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxix. 98 It is women communicate their partes as much as a man list to wantonize with them. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv. (1616) 79 When the prettie Rill a place espies, Where with the Pibbles she would wantonize. 1661–98South 12 Serm. III. 279 The mind of Man..would, if let alone, lash out, and Wantonize in a boundless enjoyment and Gratification of all its Appetites, and Inclinations. 1826Lamb Elia, Sanity of True Genius, The judgment might with some plea be pardoned if it ran riot, and a little wantonized.
†b. with it.
1611Cotgr., Rager, lasciuiously to toy, dallie, or wantonize it. 1652Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Hist. Relat. 55 The Spring for many moneths together doth wantonnize it there.
†c. quasi-trans. with away.
1673Hickeringill Gregory, Father-Greyb. 43 Wantonizing away their time and opportunities to do good.
2. trans. To make wanton. rare.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. i. Vocation 236 Their Wealth so growes, that, wantoniz'd withall, Their envious Shepheards broach a civill Brawl. 1652Benlowes Theoph. xi. xxxi. 197 Prosperitie's a gin If wantoniz'd breeds storms within. 1908Smart Set June 49 Pure are your lips and eyes; Must years onpressing Teach you to wantonize Them in caressing?
Hence ˈwantonizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe To Rdrs. A 4 b, Wherin I follow the trace of the famousest schollers of all ages, whom a wantonizing humour once in their life time hath possesst to play with strawes. 1612W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 29 The coyest wantonizing Citty-dame. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 153 Pride..must be counted State,..Wantonising, a tricke of youth. 1640tr. Verdere's Rom. of Rom. ii. xxxix. 148 A thousand amorous wantonizing[s]. |