sluggardize

English

Etymology

From sluggard +‎ -ize.

Verb

sluggardize (third-person singular simple present sluggardizes, present participle sluggardizing, simple past and past participle sluggardized)

1. (transitive, archaic, rare) To make lazy.
   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     living dully sluggardized at home

References

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