shepherdizev.
/ˈʃɛpədʌɪz/ rare.
a. intransitive. To act the part of the shepherd (or shepherdess); to pretend to lead the pastoral life.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] > affect pastoralism
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep [verb (intransitive)] > herd sheep
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. vi. 60 Though this life of Shepheardizing be out of fashion.
1773 H. Walpole Let. 11 June in Corr. (1965) XXXII. 121 In the midst of this prospect must I keep up the tone of the world, go shepherdizing with Maccaronies, sit up at loo with my Lady Hertford [etc.].
1822 Examiner 233/1 Sir W——m C——rt——s, despising the citizens, retreated into the forest, to shepherdize.
1846 Blackwood's Mag. 59 313 [They] sit alone, knit, shepherdise, and stare.
b. transitive. To tend or guide as a shepherd.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > direct > as a schoolmaster, sheepdog, or shepherd
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1899 S. L. Wilson Theol. Mod. Lit. 140 The mass of mankind are not just so many sheep which will tamely submit to be shepherdised by him, and coerced into the way chalked out for their feet.
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