palliardize

English

Etymology

palliard +‎ -ize

Noun

palliardize (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of palliardise (“lechery”)

Verb

palliardize (third-person singular simple present palliardizes, present participle palliardizing, simple past and past participle palliardized)

1. To engage in lechery or lewdness; to fornicate.
   • 1897, Anne Bradstreet, The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Together with Her Prose Remains, page 94:

     Sardanapalus, son to Ocrazapes, Who wallowed in all voluptuousness, – That palliardizing sot that out of doors Ne'er showed his face, but reveled with his whores, Did wear their garbs, their gestures imitate, And […]

   • 1955, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 482:

     T. Milles in 1619 records that Charlemagne's eldest daughter was found palliardizing (paillardising) with . . . Eginhard, his secretary. A straw shows which way the wind blows.

   • 2013, M. Winkleman, Michael A. Winkelman, A Cognitive Approach to John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, Springer, →ISBN:

     My point is not that Donne was rationalizing his own (conjectural) palliardizing; elsewhere he lauds neverending mutuality and obviously he went to great lengths to make such a legally constraining match.

   • 2017, Edward Mendelson, Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 677:

     Tonight, for instance, now that Bert has been here, I listen to the piercing screams of palliardizing cats without self-pity. Another of these “posthumous” poems, “Glad,” written in 1965, was a second-person address […]