similize

English

Verb

similize (third-person singular simple present similizes, present participle similizing, simple past and past participle similized)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To liken; to compare.
    to similize a person, thing, or act
    • 1867, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels
      How Calderon would have similized this pretty creature had he ever seen it! How would he have run him up and down the gamut of simile!

Further reading
  • similize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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