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单词 proverbialize
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proverbializev.

Brit. /prəˈvəːbɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /prəˈvərbiəˌlaɪz/
Forms: 1700s proverbialise, 1700s– proverbialize.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: proverbial adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < proverbial adj. + -ize suffix. Compare Middle French, French proverbialiser to make into a proverb, to use proverbially (1594 in an isolated attestation in Middle French as proverbializez (past participle, plural); subsequently from 1834). Compare earlier proverbializing n., proverbializing adj.
transitive. To make into a proverb; to use proverbially; to speak of in a proverb. Also occasionally intransitive: to make or utter proverbs.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > compose or utter proverbs [verb (intransitive)]
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proverbialize1777
1777 Pigs: their Pedigree & Panegyric 5 A Pig of Padua—having spent his All, to St. Anthony went 'Prentice, For Zeal was first proverbialized, For Psalmody was canonized.
a1794 H. Boyd Indian Observer (1795) 26 That heaviness of character which they have proverbialised in their German neighbours.
a1827 Good in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1828–32) II. (at cited word) Proverbialize, to make a proverb; to turn into a proverb, or to use proverbially.
1904 B. Perry Amateur Spirit 47 What sort of man was that Gallio whose unconcern for sectarian controversy has proverbialized him as the man who ‘cared for none of these things’?
1921 Times 1 Apr. 11/4 Wild March of which the Neapolitans say ‘Marzo é un pazzo’, and proverbialized by us in our ‘Mad as a March hare’.
1975 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 59 469/2 Much later in life, Ungaretti proverbialized about the significance of poetic expression.
2005 Jrnl. Hist. Sexuality (Nexis) 1 Jan. 224 The Victorians made Oxford the stuff of legend... Arnold proverbialized its dreaming spires.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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