epithetize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To name using an epithet.
    — You mean, Randy, those primitive religions in which the celebrants of the feast sacrifice a 'queen' bi-annually to propitiate unnatural forces like the sort of cannibalism which 'The Beatht,' as you so cunningly epithetize yon Moor, has been rumored to practice upon certain select and fortunate priestesses of the flesh?
  2. To disparage by means of an epithet.
    — The Professor, after having drubbed us in the style of which we have presented such numerous specimens to our readers, and which we need not now epithetize, concludes by telling that we are both tired of the subject; but that he is unwilling to close his argument, without giving us credit for all the genuine remarks we have made.

词形变化

epithetizes present,singular,third-person epithetizing participle,present epithetized participle,past epithetized past epithetise alternative

词源

From epithet + -ize.
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