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serpentize, v. Now rare.|ˈsɜːpəntaɪz|
[f. serpent n. + -ize.]
1. intr. = serpentine v. 1.
1699Garth Dispens. vi. 75 Where living Floods of Merc'ry serpentize. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. II. 202 The Euphrates serpentizes among wonderful plants. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 128 The colour of this shell is the purest white; its canalures or ribs, which serpentize, are crossed by circular lines. 1834Beckford Italy I. 23 How happy I was, when I had duly serpentized over his garden, to find myself once more in the grand avenue. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. ii. V. 32 The miserablest Brook in nature, which takes to oozing and serpentising forward thereabouts.
2. trans. To cause to take a serpentine shape, motion, or course.
1762Mrs. Montagu in Doran Lady Last Cent. (1873) 117, I dare say his Grace of Newcastle will fall to serpentizing rivers. 1808Europ. Mag. LIII. 253, I would teach them a circumbendibus; I would serpentize them.
Hence ˈserpentizing ppl. a., winding, tortuous.
1629Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 266 A Cabinet..inlaid..with siluer Plates, wrought in a serpentizing manner. 1739H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa ii. i, I know thou hast a serpentizing genius, Canst wind the subtlest mazes of the soul. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 455 A glen there is with serpentizing bend. |