macarize

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek μακαρίζω (makarízō).

Verb

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macarize (third-person singular simple present macarizes, present participle macarizing, simple past and past participle macarized)

  1. (transitive, formal, dated) To congratulate or laud; to pronounce blessed or happy.
    • 2013, Bernd Prien, David P. Schweikard, Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist, page 192:
      Couldn't I now say that “happy” is not used to describe things, but when I call someone happy I'm really doing this other thing, pragmatically I'm macarizing him?
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