ridiculize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
ridiculize (third-person singular simple present ridiculizes, present participle ridiculizing, simple past and past participle ridiculized)
- (obsolete or nonstandard) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-third Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- My heart still trembling, lest the false alarmes
That words oft strike up should ridiculize me.
References[edit]
- “ridiculize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
ridiculize
- inflection of ridiculizar: