monogrammatize

English

Alternative forms

• monogrammatise

Etymology

monogram +‎ -ize

Verb

monogrammatize (third-person singular simple present monogrammatizes, present participle monogrammatizing, simple past and past participle monogrammatized)

1. To make into a monogram.
   • 1855, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, Meister Karl's Sketch-Book, page 93:

     I know not how often I have had occasion during my life, when speaking of Romanesque or Gothic objects, to employ such adjectives as "odd," "quaint," "weird," "strange," "wild," "freakish," "antique," and "irregular;" but I am very certain that if they could, according to my good old friend Justinus Kerner’s idea of experiences, be concentrated or monogrammatized into a single word, it would be exactly the one needed to describe the rare old town of Nuremberg.

   • 1893, Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society, Transactions - Volumes 18-21, page 52:

     At one time the rage for combining, inclaving, and contracting was so great that a whole line of Virgil was tortured into a monogram, and it was the common practice in Carolingian and early Imperial diplomas to monogrammatize the royal signature.

   • 1902, Mosher's Magazine:

     It has already been partially indicated above that the name of Jesus (IHCOVC) was treated by the early Christians in a similar manner to that of Christ : abbreviated and monogrammatized.