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† ˈmodelize, v. Obs.
[f. model n. + -ize. Cf. modulize.]
1. trans. To frame or construct according to a model; to give a particular shape to; to model, frame; to organize. Also refl.
1605Shelton in Verstegan Dec. Intell. To Author, Thy curious nation..all that was rare or strange In forrain lands, at home did modellize. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxiii. 86 He who ere Time was, yet Knew all things, and now Modellized fitt, Sees with a carefull Eye. 1650Merchant Adv. of Newcastle (Surtees) 162 To modilise an acte for restrayninge of the bretheren from taking apprentices. 1659Gauden Tears Ch. iv. v. 426 Which..some silly Saints and devout bunglers will undertake to manage and modelize beyond their line and measure. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 387 Some amongst them..civilized the rest, and modelized the government. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Physick 30 The learned Protestant Antiquarian Bochard, and the erudite Popish Bishop Dan. Huetius,..agree entirely, that Apollo was modeliz'd by the Ethnicks upon the Platform of Phut. 1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 400 The Germans have a ragged r, ..which, in modelizing their letters to the present shape, they have castrated. 1810Splendid Follies II. 196 Her impatient husband was reproving her stupidity..; for Milford would fain have modelized her.
2. To symbolize.
1625C. Brooke On Sir Arthur Chichester Poems (1872) 237 Her outward accions modelized her minde.
Hence ˈmodelized ppl. a., modelled, shaped; ˈmodelizing ppl. a., formative.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. i, For the more modelizing or enamelling, or rather diamondizing of your subiect. 1688R. Holme Armory iv. xii. (Roxb.) 475/2 Their gods, made of little Modellized stones or mettle. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 18 He had a Modellizing,..or an Approving Hand in all his Royal Letters, Commissions [etc.]. 1810Splendid Follies III. 87 The enlightened Christian, who, but for the modelizing hand of science, which fashioned him in his cradle, had been thy [the negro's] equal. |