medallizemedalizev.
/ˈmɛdl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈmɛd(ə)lˌaɪz/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > memorial or monument > medal > [verb (transitive)] > illustrate with reference to medals
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1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 75 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The pleasant new Study of Medals [has not been neglected]... The History of Julius Cæsar has been also Medaliz'd by Mr. l'Abbé de Camps.
1742 J. Winstanley Poems 43 See the learned Antiquary, In Musæum medalizing, Raptures in his Mind arising, From a Piece of canker'd Brass.
1795 J. B. S. Morritt Lett. Dec. (1914) xi. 266 In the meantime I medallise, and look at statues and engraved stones all morning. I have changed my duplicates and bought most of the coins of the Greek colonies in Calabria and Sicily.
2. transitive. To represent or illustrate on a medal. Now rare.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > medal > [verb (transitive)] > represent on medal
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1735 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 183/1 The taking off the Salt Duty for above a Year, and the giving up the Excise-Bill to the Humours of a misguided Populace, deserve to be medalized as much as any Acts of Beneficence.
1828 J. Ebers Seven Years King's Theatre x. 263 At Vienna..he was crowned, medallized, and recorded in immortal verse.
1882 Mag. of Art 221 Mr. Legros has also medallised Mr. Constantine Ionides, and medals of John Mill, Carlyle, and Robert Browning, are expected from him very shortly.
1909 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Jrnl. 1 July 2/1 There are enough Dayton, Ohio, men in Lawrence these days to get up a celebration and medalize the Wrights. That is all the rage in the East.
1935 Laredo (Texas) Times 31 Oct. (Suppl.) 11/3 (headline) Soviets Medalize Persian Art... Medals for the third international congress of Iran arts have been issued by the Leningrad mint.
3. transitive. To award or present (someone) with a medal. Frequently in passive.
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1858 Punch 24 July 38/2 The Government won't medallise the sailors... It is apparently the Governmental maxim that Valour, like as Virtue, is its own reward.
1880 Daily Leader (Bloomington, Illinois) 16 July (heading) The Grant Delegates Medalized by Filley... Chancey J. Filley,..has prepared an appropriate medal to be presented to each of the 306 delegates who voted for Gen. Grant.
1949 Daily Herald (Gulfport & Biloxi, Miss.) 1 Dec. 4/2 He kicked open the door of the plane and got out the passengers... [He] ought to be ‘medalized’—which he doubtless will be.
1981 Daily Herald (Chicago) 8 Dec. (Arlington Heights ed.) i. 2/3 (heading) Shuttlenauts medalized by Reagan... Reagan presented the space travelers with the Distinguished Service Medal.
2014 D. Johnson Secret of Magic i. 15 ‘I only did what they told me to do.’..‘You did it good though. Got yourself medalized.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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