pilgrimize

English

Etymology

From pilgrim +‎ -ize.

Verb

pilgrimize (third-person singular simple present pilgrimizes, present participle pilgrimizing, simple past and past participle pilgrimized)

1. (obsolete) To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
   • c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Fellow Onion, I'll bear thy charges, and thou wilt but pilgrimize it along with me to the land of Utopia

   • 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC:

     substantial clothing to use in rough pilgrimizing in the Holy Land

References

• “pilgrimize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.