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▪ I. scandalize, v.1|ˈskændəlaɪz|
[a. F. scandaliser (OF. escandalisier), ad. eccl. L. scandalizāre, ad. late Gr. σκανδαλίζειν, f. σκάνδαλον: see scandal n. and -ize. Cf. Sp. escandalizar, Pg. escandalisar, It. scandalizzare, scandalezzare.]
†1. trans. To bruit abroad, make a public scandal of (a discreditable secret). Obs. rare—1.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn 44 Ye wyll scandalyze & vttre your mysfal that is now happed to you of one man.
2. To be the occasion of stumbling to; to injure spiritually by one's example. Now rare.
1538Pole Let. 1 Aug. in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxxxiii. 214 But they that scandalize a whole Nation, what shal follow? 1609Downam Chr. Libertie 78 Thou doest scandalize..thy weake brethren.
3. To utter false or malicious reports of (a person's) conduct; to slander, to charge slanderously († with). Now somewhat rare. In early use also † to insult, treat with contempt.
1566in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. xlviii. 486 He came thither..to embrace the Truth, which he had for a long time scandalized and rejected. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine xx. 77 Let Iustice carry his ballance neuer so euen, the gouernment shall be dispised, the lawes scandalised, religion disdained, authority slandered. 1631Heywood London's Jus Hon. Ded. to Sheriffs, The Tribunes of the people..are cal'd Sacro Sancti, whose persons might not be iniured, nor their names any way scandaliz'd. 1705Vanbrugh Confederacy iv. 53 We'll read Verses,..tell Lies, scandalize our Friends. 1790Pennant London (1813) 499 He was scandalized with suicide. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxvi, To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the Order. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop iv, The company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs. 1865Intell. Observer No. 42. 412 Scandalise or malign the owl's character.
b. absol. and intr. To talk scandal.
1745Franklin On Scandal Wks. 1887 II. 27 If to scandalize be really a crime, what do these puppies mean? 1888Henley Bk. Verses 122 Saving to scrub, to bake, to brew, Nurse, dress, prattle, and scandalize, Nothing is left for the men to do.
4. trans. To bring shame or discredit upon; to disgrace. Obs. exc. poet.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 91 Nor yet any church scandalized with the wicked liues of their pastors. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §45. 78 To live under the Gospell of Christ, and to live in sinne is..to scandalize the Word of Grace. 1659Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 438 The Committee thought it reasonable to..adjourn to the Inner Court of Wards, he being scandalized to stand at that bar where he had been judge of the Court. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 32 There's a Beau..going to sell himself to Barbadoes, to keep himself..from Scandalizing his Relations at Tyburn. 1880Tennyson Columbus 189 We, who bore the Cross Thither, were excommunicated there, For curbing crimes that scandalised the Cross.
5. To horrify or shock by some supposed violation of morality or propriety.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §42 Others..were more scandalized at so precipitate a Promotion of a person of Such an Education. 1676North's Plutarch, Add. Lives 90 The Spaniards..had by their filthy behaviour scandalized all the chief inhabitants of the Island. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 14 He is much scandaliz'd to find any in his Ship out-witting him. 1779Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 623 The critic is scandalized at the epithets of scanty and suspicious. 1849James Woodman v, You will scandalise our reverend friend here. 1873Symonds Gk. Poets iii. 79 The prudes of antiquity were scandalized at Solon, for having penned some amorous verses of very questionable character.
▪ II. scandalize, v.2 Naut.|ˈskændəlaɪz|
[Alteration of scantelize, assimilated to prec. Cf. scantle v. 4.]
trans. To reduce the area of (a sail) by lowering the peak and tricing up the tack.
1862‘Vanderdecken’ Yacht Sailor 18 Keep your peak standing, or scandalise the mainsail. 1867N. & Q. 28 Sept. 260/2 Scandalising a Sail. This phrase is neither very new, nor confined to Thanet. It was in common use among Cornish sailors fully forty years ago.
Hence ˈscandalized ppl. a.2
1893Clark Russell Ida Noble 205 We reduced the schooner down to what is termed a scandalised mainsail and a jib. |