eccentrize

English

Etymology

eccentric +‎ -ize

Verb

eccentrize (third-person singular simple present eccentrizes, present participle eccentrizing, simple past and past participle eccentrized)

1. To make eccentric.
   • 1836, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal:

     Tigerism has for a long time been on the increase among writers; for since it has been the fashion in the great world to take up any scribbler who has libelled, fought, or eccentrized himself into notice, the spoiled child of the season has found it easier to outrer the dress and deportment of a gentleman for the occasion, than to assume it: in other words, the public make lions of these men; and they, by a slight transformation, make themselves tigers.

   • 1945, RMR, Rocky Mountain Review - Volume 10, page 174:

     It is clear from any study of this kind that whether from inertias or resistances , society feels a need to eccentrize innovations and innovators, to burlesque and caricature them, to incarcerate them securely in a folklore.

   • 1983, College literature - Volume 10, page 84:

     And while she accuses other critics of a normalizing of a literary work which eventuates in a failure to comprehend it, she seems to eccentrize to such an extent that obfuscation prevails.