单词 | hyperbolize |
释义 | hyperbolizev. Now rare. 1. intransitive. To use hyperbole; to exaggerate. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > use figure of meaning [verb (intransitive)] > use hyperbole hyperbolize1599 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ii. 10 Will you hyperbolize aboue S. Gregorie, who is contented to marshall the foure generall Councels? 1632 G. Hughes Saints Losse 52 If I should tell all, I should..seeme to hyperbolize. 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 90 God in Scripture allows of Titles;..nay, God doth hyperbolize it, and saith of al Powers, You are Gods. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xvi. 321 The person..who was under the distracting agitations of grief, might be permitted to hyperbolize strongly. 2. transitive. To express or represent hyperbolically; †to extol or praise extravagantly; to exaggerate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)] flatter?c1225 engregec1386 enhancec1400 extol?1504 extend1509 aggravate1533 exagger1535 blowa1538 amplify1561 exasperate1561 bombast1566 aggerate1570 enlarge1592 rengrege1601 exaggerate1604 magnify1605 hyperbolize1609 to slobber over ——1761 bloat1896 over-heighten1904 overpitch1904 overblow1961 inflate1982 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 41 Glosses hyperbolizing the flatteries of the Canonists. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 26 Of the Fruit or Nuts of these Trees is made the so fam'd Chocoletta, whose virtues are hiperboliz'd upon every post in London. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 271 He has hyperbolized the Spanish hyperbolical salutation, ‘May you live a thousand years!’ 1814 Edinb. Rev. 24 40 Surprising events which were but moderately hyperbolized at the time. Derivatives hyˈperbolizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > action of exaggerating amplifying1553 exaggeration1592 hyperbolizinga1620 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > given to exaggeration overlashing1578 overreaching1579 hyperbolizinga1620 exaggeratory1759 exaggerative1797 dramatizing1808 exaggerating1817 a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. vii. §6. 272 The rhetoricall amplification of hyperbolizing Orators. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. v. §89. 291 This had been without hyperbolizing, Mundus contra Athanasium. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia xv. 233 If I gave no credit to their hyberbolizing fancies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1599 |
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