personize

English

Alternative forms

personise

Etymology

From person +‎ -ize.

Verb

personize (third-person singular simple present personizes, present participle personizing, simple past and past participle personized)

1. (archaic) To personify.
   • 1734, Jonathan Richardson, Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost:

     Milton has personized them.

   • 1778, Mr. Seward, “Preface”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher:

     Fletcher, in personizing the passions and not drawing from real life […]

   • 1762, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:

     If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer

Related terms

• personalize

References

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