diamondize

English

Etymology

From diamond +‎ -ize.

Verb

diamondize (third-person singular simple present diamondizes, present participle diamondizing, simple past and past participle diamondized)

1. (transitive) To set with diamonds; to adorn or enrich.
   • 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act III, scene iiii, pages 123–124:

     [F]or the more modellizing, or enamelling, or rather diamondizing of your ſubject, you ſhall perceiue the Hypotheſis, or Galaxia, (vvhereof the Meteors long ſince had their initiall inceptions and notions) to be meerely Pythagoricall, Mathematicall, and Ariſtocraticall— […]

Anagrams

• daminozide

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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