| 释义 |
Phrygianize, v.|ˈfrɪdʒ(ɪ)ənaɪz|
[f. prec. + -ize.]
1. trans. To make Phrygian in character.
1893W. M. Ramsay Ch. Rom. Emp. xvii. 438 The natural tendency of the Phrygians to Phrygianise their beliefs.
2. fig. To frizzle.
1836Landor Pericles & Aspasia liii. Wks. 1846 II. 376/1 But whenever an obvious and natural thought presents itself, they either reject it for coming without imagination, or they phrygianize it with such biting and hot curling-irons, that it rolls itself up impenetrably. 1869Dowden Stud. Lit. (1890) 182 He [Landor] never Phrygianized (to borrow his own word) an obvious and natural thought. |