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1600 [implied in: B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. i. sig. I Modellizing or enamelling, or rather diamondizing of your Subiect. View more context for this quotation].

1605 Shelton in R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence To Author Thy curious nation..all that was rare or strange In forrain lands, at home did modellize.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 92 While with the Duke [i.e. Moses], th' Eternall did devise, And to his inward sight did modellize [1608 modulize] His Tabernacle's admirable Forme.

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxiii. 86 He who ere Time was, yet Knew all things, and now Modellized fitt, Sees with a carefull Eye.

1650 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 162 To modilise an acte for restrayninge of the bretheren from taking apprentices.

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. v. 426 Which..some silly Saints and devout bunglers will undertake to manage and modelize beyond their line and measure.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 387 Some amongst them..civilized the rest, and modelized the government.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 30 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The learned Protestant Antiquarian Bochard, and the erudite Popish Bishop Dan. Huetius,..agree entirely, that Apollo was modeliz'd by the Ethnicks upon the Platform of Phut.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 117 The Germans have a ragged r,..which, in modelizing their letters to the present shape, they have castrated.

1810 Splendid Follies II. 196 Her impatient husband was reproving her stupidity..; for Milford would fain have modelized her.

a1864 J. Clare Early Poems (1989) I. 111 Nature unequal modelizes all Some she makes great and others mighty small.

1959 Mind 68 350 The distinction can roughly, but adequately, be modelised as follows [etc.].

1981 Yale French Stud. No. 61. 51 How does it [sc. description] serve the realistic novelist who purports to modelize a better world by exposing the failings of the actual one?

1995 Population: Eng. Select. 7 148 This makes it possible to modelize the hazard rate.

a1628 C. Brooke Poems (1872) 237 Her outward accions modelized her minde.

1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 1 That Virgin..Whose rare composure did abstract the story Of true perfection, modellizing forth The height of beauty, and admired worth.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iv. xii. 475/2 Their gods, made of little Modellized stones or mettle.

2000 Colloids & Surfaces B. 17 205 (title) Elaboration of modelized surfaces with well defined microtopochemistry.