diamondize

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English

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Etymology

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From diamond +‎ -ize.

Verb

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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), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. [], London: [] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, [], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, signature I, recto:
      [F]or the more modellizing, or enamelling, or rather diamondizing of your ſubiect, you ſhall perceiue the Hipotheſis, or Galaxia, (vvhereof the Meteors long ſince had their Initiall inceptions and Notions) to be meerely Pithagoricall, Mathematicall, and Aristocraticall: []

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)