proverbialize

English

Etymology

proverbial +‎ -ize. Compare French proverbialiser.

Verb

proverbialize (third-person singular simple present proverbializes, present participle proverbializing, simple past and past participle proverbialized)

  1. (transitive) To turn into a proverb.
  2. (intransitive) To speak in proverbs.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 proverbialize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.