Gothicise

English

Etymology

From Gothic +‎ -ise.

Verb

Gothicise (third-person singular simple present Gothicises, present participle Gothicising, simple past and past participle Gothicised)

(transitive) To make Gothic in style or character.
- 1990 December 16, Michael Bronski, “Cutting Up”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 20:
  Director Burton skillfully mixes aspects of these [traditional horror] films with the emotional naiveté and post-modern chic of contemporary teen-films. This gives us something that resembles a gothicized Sixteen Candles or a monstrous Pretty in Pink.
- 2006, Veronica Ortenberg, In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages:
  ..He was commissioned to Gothicise the royal apartments at Windsor and to work on William Beckford's house at Fonthill.
- 2012, Andrew Smith, Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, page 229:
  Her tales of benevolent ghosts Gothicise everyday domestic space.
- 2012, Isabella Van Elferen, Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny:
  Music can be a Gothicising factor in the cinema without necessarily being representative of the genre itself: the performativity of musical connotations can cause a Gothicising of the film narrative or imagery.