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单词 novelize
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novelizev.

Brit. /ˈnɒvəlʌɪz/, /ˈnɒvl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈnɑvəˌlaɪz/
Forms: 1600s novellize, 1600s 1800s– novelize, 1800s– novelise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: novel n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < novel n. + -ize suffix. Compare slightly earlier novelizing adj. With sense 2 compare novelizing n.
1.
a. transitive. To remodel in a new or novel manner. Obsolete.In quot. 1631 used reflexively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > make new or novel [verb (transitive)]
newOE
innew?a1475
newfangle1530
novelize1631
to freshen up1746
to fresh up1831
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > make new [verb (reflexive)]
novelize1631
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies iv. 210 If hee travaile to novellize himselfe, and not to benefit his Country.
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. vi. 21 Affections doe stand to be novellized by the mutability of the present times.
1660 P. Heylyn Historia Quinqu-articularis iii. 76 These opinions..which are now novelized by the name of Arminianism.
1829 S. J. B. Hale Sketches Amer. Char. 12 Fanny—(that was her name; had she ever attended a boarding school, it would probably have been novelized into Frances..).
b. intransitive. To produce something new; to introduce novelty. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > produce something new [verb (intransitive)]
innovate1595
novelize1823
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 546 Even on beaten subjects, however, ingenuity will find means to novelize.
2.
a. transitive. To convert (a narrative) into the form or style of a novel.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > write novel about [verb (transitive)] > convert into novel
novelize1828
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > write novels [verb (intransitive)]
novelize1890
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth Introd., in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 19 You surely mean to novelize, or to dramatize if you will, this most singular of all tragedies?
1833 J. F. W. Herschel Ess. (1857) 15 The desperate attempts to novelize history which the herd of Scott's imitators have put forth.
1890 Athenæum 303/1 In ‘Judge Lynch’ Mr. Jessop has ‘novelized’ a drama.
1932 in K. Brown Girl from China (title page) The Girl from China Novelized by Karen Brown. Adapted from John Cotton's Drifting Universal Picture starring Mary Nolan.
1989 Doctor Who Mag. Sept. 33/1 Target have gained permission to novelise this story at last and it will be appearing as two books in the late autumn.
b. intransitive. To write novels. rare.
ΚΠ
1837 T. L. Beddoes Let. 9 Mar. (1894) 214 J.G.H.B. has been poetizing, Novellizing, and magazinning a year or two.
1961 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Jan. 62/2 Dr. Johnson would certainly not have wanted to bring women novelizing into his analogy about dogs standing on their hind legs—even women novelizing at sixteen.

Derivatives

ˈnovelized adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > converted into a novel
novelized1850
1850 T. A. Trollope Impress. Wanderer xvii. 266 It was a novelised version, by no means ill done.
1946 W. Ivins Art & Geom. iv. 60 The fact that the one great history written by a Greek is frankly a ‘novelized’ account has many implications.
1991 Independent 29 May 21/2 The ‘novelised’ style..has become mandatory in US non-fiction.
ˈnovelizer n.
ΚΠ
1976 Author Summer 45 Writing the ‘book of the film’..Publishers..will pay as much for the right to use a production still on the jacket as they will for the noveliser's services.
1994 Interzone Feb. 40/1 Since The Omen the previously despised novelization and its hack novelizer have acquired new dignity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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