serpentizev.
/ˈsəːpəntʌɪz/ Now rare.
1. intransitive. = serpentine v. 1.
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the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > change direction > turn or bend > bend or wind
twine1553
crankle1598
crinklea1600
creek1610
straggle1612
wind1613
serpentize1699
wander1747
serpentine1767
meander1785
zigzag1787
serpentinize1791
twister1872
snake1875
twist1879
1699 S. Garth Dispensary vi. 71 Where living Floods of Merc'ry serpentize.
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant II. 202 The Euphrates serpentizes among wonderful plants.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 128/2 The colour of this shell is the purest white; its canalures or ribs, which serpentize, are crossed by circular lines.
1783 W. Beckford Dreams iii. 21 How happy I was, when I had duly serpentized over his garden, to find myself once more in the grand avenue.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. ii. 32 The miserablest Brook in nature, which takes to oozing and serpentising forward thereabouts.
2. transitive. To cause to take a serpentine shape, motion, or course.
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the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > cause to take a winding direction
serpentize1762
serpentine1850
1762 E. Montagu Let. 28 May in J. Doran Lady of Last Century (1873) 117 I dare say his Grace of Newcastle will fall to serpentizing rivers.
1808 European Mag. 53 253 I would teach them a circumbendibus; I would serpentize them.
Derivatives
ˈserpentizing adj. winding, tortuous.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves
tortivous14..
anfractuous?a1425
tortuous1426
tortuea1500
snakish1532
winding1538
wormy1545
boughty1570
wriggled1572
sinuous1578
serpent-likea1586
crankled1594
serpent1597
snaky1600
flexuous1605
snaking1605
cringle-crangle1606
voluminous1611
serpenting?1614
serpentine1615
curvy1623
serpentizing1628
worming1631
lacinious1648
anguineous1656
anguine1657
anfractuose1680
twisting1683
vermicular1712
worm-like1721
flexuose1727
meandering1748
crinkum-crankum1766
serpentiform1777
serpentining1799
anguiform1800
ophite1828
tortuose1829
cranky1836
sinuose1836
serpentile1857
twisty1857
sinuated1859
vermiculatea1864
twinyc1868
tortive1880
crinkle-crankle1881
serpentinous1882
quirky1890
twistical1890
waggly1894
wriggly1901
squiggly1902
wiggly1903
contortionate1911
wig-waggy1914
curvaceous1965
1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis iii. 266 A Cabinet..inlaid..with siluer Plates, wrought in a serpentizing manner.
1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa ii. i I know thou hast a serpentizing genius, Canst wind the subtlest mazes of the soul.
1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 455 A glen there is with serpentizing bend.
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