pedantize

English

Etymology

pedant +‎ -ize. Compare French pédantiser.

Verb

pedantize (third-person singular simple present pedantizes, present participle pedantizing, simple past and past participle pedantized)

(intransitive, archaic) To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pedantize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)