† proverbizev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To style or call proverbially.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > utter or describe proverbially [verb (transitive)]
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 253 For household Rules, read not the learned Writs Of the Stagarian (glorie of good wits): Nor his, whom [i.e. Xenophon] for his hunnie-steeped stile, They Prouerbiz'd the Attike Muse yer-while [Fr. celuy que le proverbe antique, Pour ses discours sucrez, appela muse antique].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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