Latinise
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Latinise (third-person singular simple present Latinises, present participle Latinising, simple past and past participle Latinised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Latinize.
- 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] VIII. That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 239:
- To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.