personize
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personize (third-person singular simple present personizes, present participle personizing, simple past and past participle personized)
- (archaic) To personify.
- 1734, Jonathan Richardson, Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost:
- Milton has personized them.
- 1778, Mr. Seward, “Preface”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher:
- Fletcher, in personizing the passions and not drawing from real life […]
- 1762, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:
- If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer
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- “personize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.