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ˈBoswellize, v.
1. intr. To write in Boswell's style; ˈBoswellizing vbl. n.
1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 488 Boswellizing became in fashion. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 7 But I have been Boswellizing to you about the past history of these friends of mine.
2. trans. To treat in the Boswellian manner; to observe and record the actions, etc. of (someone).
1837J. G. Lockhart Mem. Sir W. Scott IV. v. 151 Private lucubrations..designed to Boswellize Scott. 1855Tait's Mag. XXII. 444/2 We had rather the many-sided man should remain to us the mystery he is, than be Boswellised after the fashion which is now current. 1912A. Lang Shakespeare, Bacon & Gt. Unkn. ii. 29 There was no enthusiastic curiosity about him; nobody Boswellised any playwright of his time. |