melodizev.

Brit.

/ˈmɛlədʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˈmɛləˌdaɪz/

Forms: 1600s– melodise, 1700s– melodize.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: melody n., -ize suffix.

Etymology: < melody n. + -ize suffix. Compare post-classical Latin melodizare (13th cent. in a British source).

1. intransitive. To make or play music; (poetic) to blend melodiously (with).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)]

dreamOE

to make melodyc1330

to make minstrelsyc1330

note1340

practise?a1425

gest1508

melody1596

music1649

melodize1662

perform1724

spiel1870

1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme Apol. Perfection in Remainder Bks. 42 A Harmony of God, upon which the Spirit of God would melodise [Ger. spielen].

1794 R. Southey Let. 24 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 203 Lightfoot still melodises on the flute.

1811 W. Scott Don Roderick Introd. ii. 4 Yes! such a strain with all o'er-powering measure, Might melodize with each tumultuous sound.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 102 To murmur through the heaven-breathing groves And melodize with man's blest nature there.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. viii. 95 As the Scotchman again melodised with a dying fall.

1986 Jrnl. (Fairfax County, Va.) 23 May b1/4 The Moody Blues melodize on the 22nd.

2002 G. O'Brien Castaways Image Planet 225 A long-hidden disembodied Bing, a ghost continuing to melodize somewhere just below the level of conscious hearing.

2. transitive. To make melodious; to express in musical form. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > make pleasant sound [verb (transitive)] > make musical or harmonious

harmonize1700

melodizea1727

balance1928

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > produce musical sound [verb (transitive)] > make melodious

attune1667

harmonize1700

melodizea1727

a1727 W. Pattison Cupid's Metamorph. (1728) 214 Nature still strives t' amuse my Mind in vain, 'Till Birds wide-warbling melodize the Plain.

1760 J. Langhorne Ode to River Eden in Poems 19 Whose murmurs melodize my Song.

1766 H. Walpole Let. 11 Jan. (1857) IV. 461 Thy enchanting look Can melodize each note in Nature's book.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 253 These repeated attempts of the learned English..to melodise our orthoepy.

1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air (1874) 60 Music in which the words and thought lead, and the lyre measures or melodizes them.

1882 A. B. Alcott Ralph Waldo Emerson 36 Afternoon walks furnished the perspectives, rounded and melodized them.

1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 21 Aug. b6 A little-known Shostakovich gavotte, harmonized so sweetly and melodized so genially that even the ad hoc quality of the performance posed no impediment to its enjoyment.

2006 R. Wilder Daddy needs Drink (2007) 40 At Owl Liquors, they didn't find it unusual that I melodized my request.

3. transitive. To compose a melody for (a song). rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > compose [verb (transitive)] > set to music

set1502

air1608

musicate1614

compose1685

melodize1881

music1897

musicalize1919

1881 J. Doran Drury Lane II. 191 He penned and melodised hundreds of popular songs.

1999 Opera News (Nexis) Aug. 10 With charming modesty, Glover claimed not to have actually composed the work but merely to have ‘melodized’ it.

Derivatives

ˈmelodized adj. now rare

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > melodious or harmonious

sweetc900

merryOE

softc1230

accordanta1325

well-soundingc1350

cordant1382

sootc1385

songfula1400

melodiousa1425

sugaredc1430

well-toneda1500

tunable1504

dulcea1513

equivalenta1513

consonant?1521

harmonicala1527

harmoniousc1550

consorteda1586

Orphean1593

concentful1595

melodical1596

sweet-recording1598

tuneful1598

sirenical1599

high-tuned1603

nightingale-like1611

soundful?1615

according1626

modulaminous1637

undiscording1645

canorous1646

symphonious1652

concinnous1654

consonous1654

harmonic1667

sirenica1704

symphonial1773

concentual1782

chantant1785

Memnonian1800

melodized1807

Orphic1817

undiscordant1819

concentuous1850

fluting1852

melodic1871

well-orchestrated1872

jarless1876

tuny1885

tunesome1890

1807 Lady Morgan Patriotic Sketches Ireland I. x. 153 A parallel instance of parental and melodized affliction is to be found in Chandler's Travels into Asia Minor.

1840 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 24 The quasi discords of Sappho's melodized passion—still recurring, and still resolving themselves into music.

1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. ix. 240 Her bird-like singing is the melodised cheerfulness of her heart.

2003 S. G. Zvereva Alexander Kastalsky xvi. 155 Kastalsky..strove to create a picture..of life in an ancient Russian town, using transcriptions of folksongs, bilini, spiritual verses, melodized folk cries, instrumental tunes, [etc.].

ˈmelodizer n. rare a person who or thing which provides a melody.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun]

musiciana1398

musickerc1450

music man1569

tuner1579

harmonian1603

minstrel1718

musico1724

harmonist1742

performer1776

executanta1859

musicist1873

melodizer1890

tunester1903

muso1967

muso1977

1890 Temple Bar Dec. 588 Romance!.. O golden melodizer of sweet dreams!

ˈmelodizing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun]

modulationa1398

timing?1578

tuning1609

musicking1703

melodizing1786

rendering1840

rendition1851

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Introd. p. xiv This art of melodizing, if I may so call it, seems in the present age to have reached its acmé.

1818 J. Keats Let. 23 Jan. (1958) I. 214 O golden tongued Romance, with serene Lute!.. Leave melodizing on this wintry day.

1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 408/2 In the series it lies nearest to yellow, which may be adopted as its melodizing colour.

1990 Boston Globe (Nexis) 31 Oct. (Arts section) 29 [He] has been cast as El Gallo, the show's melodizing narrator.

2004 H. Best in P. A. Basden Exploring Worship Spectrum 69 I am not..speaking against the intonation or melodizing of pure Scripture. I could wish that this practice were a regular part of the song of all worshiping bodies.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	melodize
释义	melodizev. Brit. /ˈmɛlədʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈmɛləˌdaɪz/ Forms: 1600s– melodise, 1700s– melodize. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: melody n., -ize suffix. Etymology: < melody n. + -ize suffix. Compare post-classical Latin melodizare (13th cent. in a British source). 1. intransitive. To make or play music; (poetic) to blend melodiously (with). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] dreamOE to make melodyc1330 to make minstrelsyc1330 note1340 practise?a1425 gest1508 melody1596 music1649 melodize1662 perform1724 spiel1870 1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme Apol. Perfection in Remainder Bks. 42 A Harmony of God, upon which the Spirit of God would melodise [Ger. spielen]. 1794 R. Southey Let. 24 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 203 Lightfoot still melodises on the flute. 1811 W. Scott Don Roderick Introd. ii. 4 Yes! such a strain with all o'er-powering measure, Might melodize with each tumultuous sound. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 102 To murmur through the heaven-breathing groves And melodize with man's blest nature there. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. viii. 95 As the Scotchman again melodised with a dying fall. 1986 Jrnl. (Fairfax County, Va.) 23 May b1/4 The Moody Blues melodize on the 22nd. 2002 G. O'Brien Castaways Image Planet 225 A long-hidden disembodied Bing, a ghost continuing to melodize somewhere just below the level of conscious hearing. 2. transitive. To make melodious; to express in musical form. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > make pleasant sound [verb (transitive)] > make musical or harmonious harmonize1700 melodizea1727 balance1928 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > produce musical sound [verb (transitive)] > make melodious attune1667 harmonize1700 melodizea1727 a1727 W. Pattison Cupid's Metamorph. (1728) 214 Nature still strives t' amuse my Mind in vain, 'Till Birds wide-warbling melodize the Plain. 1760 J. Langhorne Ode to River Eden in Poems 19 Whose murmurs melodize my Song. 1766 H. Walpole Let. 11 Jan. (1857) IV. 461 Thy enchanting look Can melodize each note in Nature's book. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 253 These repeated attempts of the learned English..to melodise our orthoepy. 1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air (1874) 60 Music in which the words and thought lead, and the lyre measures or melodizes them. 1882 A. B. Alcott Ralph Waldo Emerson 36 Afternoon walks furnished the perspectives, rounded and melodized them. 1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 21 Aug. b6 A little-known Shostakovich gavotte, harmonized so sweetly and melodized so genially that even the ad hoc quality of the performance posed no impediment to its enjoyment. 2006 R. Wilder Daddy needs Drink (2007) 40 At Owl Liquors, they didn't find it unusual that I melodized my request. 3. transitive. To compose a melody for (a song). rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > compose [verb (transitive)] > set to music set1502 air1608 musicate1614 compose1685 melodize1881 music1897 musicalize1919 1881 J. Doran Drury Lane II. 191 He penned and melodised hundreds of popular songs. 1999 Opera News (Nexis) Aug. 10 With charming modesty, Glover claimed not to have actually composed the work but merely to have ‘melodized’ it. Derivatives ˈmelodized adj. now rare ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > melodious or harmonious sweetc900 merryOE softc1230 accordanta1325 well-soundingc1350 cordant1382 sootc1385 songfula1400 melodiousa1425 sugaredc1430 well-toneda1500 tunable1504 dulcea1513 equivalenta1513 consonant?1521 harmonicala1527 harmoniousc1550 consorteda1586 Orphean1593 concentful1595 melodical1596 sweet-recording1598 tuneful1598 sirenical1599 high-tuned1603 nightingale-like1611 soundful?1615 according1626 modulaminous1637 undiscording1645 canorous1646 symphonious1652 concinnous1654 consonous1654 harmonic1667 sirenica1704 symphonial1773 concentual1782 chantant1785 Memnonian1800 melodized1807 Orphic1817 undiscordant1819 concentuous1850 fluting1852 melodic1871 well-orchestrated1872 jarless1876 tuny1885 tunesome1890 1807 Lady Morgan Patriotic Sketches Ireland I. x. 153 A parallel instance of parental and melodized affliction is to be found in Chandler's Travels into Asia Minor. 1840 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 24 The quasi discords of Sappho's melodized passion—still recurring, and still resolving themselves into music. 1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. ix. 240 Her bird-like singing is the melodised cheerfulness of her heart. 2003 S. G. Zvereva Alexander Kastalsky xvi. 155 Kastalsky..strove to create a picture..of life in an ancient Russian town, using transcriptions of folksongs, bilini, spiritual verses, melodized folk cries, instrumental tunes, [etc.]. ˈmelodizer n. rare a person who or thing which provides a melody. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] musiciana1398 musickerc1450 music man1569 tuner1579 harmonian1603 minstrel1718 musico1724 harmonist1742 performer1776 executanta1859 musicist1873 melodizer1890 tunester1903 muso1967 muso1977 1890 Temple Bar Dec. 588 Romance!.. O golden melodizer of sweet dreams! ˈmelodizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] modulationa1398 timing?1578 tuning1609 musicking1703 melodizing1786 rendering1840 rendition1851 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Introd. p. xiv This art of melodizing, if I may so call it, seems in the present age to have reached its acmé. 1818 J. Keats Let. 23 Jan. (1958) I. 214 O golden tongued Romance, with serene Lute!.. Leave melodizing on this wintry day. 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 408/2 In the series it lies nearest to yellow, which may be adopted as its melodizing colour. 1990 Boston Globe (Nexis) 31 Oct. (Arts section) 29 [He] has been cast as El Gallo, the show's melodizing narrator. 2004 H. Best in P. A. Basden Exploring Worship Spectrum 69 I am not..speaking against the intonation or melodizing of pure Scripture. I could wish that this practice were a regular part of the song of all worshiping bodies. 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