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pedantize, v.|ˈpɛdəntaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize, or a. F. pédantiser, -izer (Cotgr.).]
1. intr. To play the pedant; to speak or write pedantically. Also to pedantize it.
1611Cotgr., Pedantizer, to pedantize it, or play the Pedant: to domineere ouer lads. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 8 That I..am a detestable person,..one of the ἄδικοι (as he pedantizes it). 1783Ainsworth Thesaurus (ed. Morell), To pedantize, or play the pedant, literaturam ostentare, vel venditare. 1862Sat. Rev. 4 Jan. 22/1 To vegetate and pedantize on the classics.
2. trans. To turn into a pedant; to make pedants.
a1734North Lives (1890) III. 89 That bare reading without practice, which pedantiseth a student but never makes him a clever lawyer. 1885Sat. Rev. 18 July 88/2 The cramping and pedantizing influence of a pseudo-system. |