creaturize

English

Etymology

creature +‎ -ize

Verb

creaturize (third-person singular simple present creaturizes, present participle creaturizing, simple past and past participle creaturized)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make like a creature; to degrade.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “creaturize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cauterizer