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novelize, v.|ˈnɒvəlaɪz|
Also 7 novellize.
[f. novel n. + -ize.]
1.
†a. trans. To bring into a new condition; to make new or novel. Obs.
1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. vi. 21 Affections doe stand to be novellized by the mutability of the present times. 1660Heylin Hist. Quinquart. iii. 76 These opinions..which are now novelized by the name of Arminianism.
refl.1631R. Brathwait Whimzies 210 If hee travaile to novellize himselfe, and not to benefit his Country.
b. intr. To produce something new; to introduce novelty.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 546 Even on beaten subjects, however, ingenuity will find means to novelize.
2. a. trans. To convert into the form or style of a novel.
1828Scott F.M. Perth Introd., You surely mean to novelize, or to dramatize if you will, this most singular of all tragedies? 1833Herschel Ess. (1857) 15 The desperate attempts to novelize history which the herd of Scott's imitators have put forth. 1890Athenæum 303/1 In ‘Judge Lynch’ Mr. Jessop has ‘novelized’ a drama.
b. intr. To write novels. rare.
1889G. B. Shaw Let. 31 Aug. (1965) 221 Some time ago I tried novelizing again. 1961Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Jan. 62/2 Dr. Johnson would certainly not have wanted to bring women novelizing into his analogy about dogs standing on their hind legs—even women novelizing at sixteen.
Hence ˈnovelized ppl. a., ˈnovelizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar 60, I must confesse my dissent thorough and sincere from the Faction of novellizing Puritans. 1651J. Jane Εικων ακλαστος 156 Antiquitie..condemnes their fantasticall, and presumptuous novelizing. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. (1756) 36 For the novelizing spirit of man lives by variety, and the new faces of things. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 238 Its author never will shine in novelizing. 1850T. A. Trollope Impress. Wand. xvii. 266 It was a novelised version, by no means ill done. |