similize

English

Verb

similize (third-person singular simple present similizes, present participle similizing, simple past and past participle similized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To liken; to compare.

   to similize a person, thing, or act

   • 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:

     How Calderon would have similized this pretty creature had he ever seen it! How would he have run him up and down the gamut of simile!

Related terms

• similar
• simile

Further reading

• “similize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.