dentize

English

Etymology

From Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”).

Verb

dentize (third-person singular simple present dentizes, present participle dentizing, simple past and past participle dentized)

1. (archaic) To teethe.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The old countess […] did dentize twice or thrice.

Synonyms

• cut new teeth, breed teeth

References

• “dentize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “dentize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• tenzide, Dietzen