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Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.

To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture. [R.] Walpole.

To cause to become a fanatic.

To conform to the French mode or idiom.

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

To render grammatical. Fuller.

to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized. T. Warton.

To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.

To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle. [R.]

Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.

put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. Marvell.

To adopt the principles of the Sadducees. Atterbury.

To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. [R.]

To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything. [R.] To skepticize, where no one else will . . . hesitate. Shaftesbury.

To commit a solecism. [R.] Dr. H. More.