tenebrize

English

Etymology

From Latin tenebrae (“darkness”) +‎ -ize.

Verb

tenebrize (third-person singular simple present tenebrizes, present participle tenebrizing, simple past and past participle tenebrized)

1. (archaic, rare) To dwell in darkness.
   • 1648, Paul Knell, Israel and England paralelled, etc, page 17:

     you of the Laity, for tenebrizing, for your Conventicles;

   • 1662, Robert Loveday, Loveday's letters, domestick and forreign, page 68:

     That I had not a line or two from your hand by Mr. D. I suppose was rather mischance then intention: that I eagerly expected it may be credited from my frequent importunities, from which I know not how you will defend your self, so long as I tenebrize it here in this blind corner, where I almost live like a flye in winter, and onely play in the Sun-shine when I communicate with such freinds as your self.

   • 2011, Rose Macaulay, Personal Pleasures:

     We spend too many of these precious clinic hours in blind stupor, tenebrizing it like polar bears in winter.

2. (rare) To make dark and shadowy.
   • 2006, Dani Cavallaro, “Oshii’s Technopolitics”, in The cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology, and Politics, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 139:

     The overall atmosphere is not merely murky but tenebrized and quite literally night-soaked.