tieze

English

Verb

tieze (third-person singular simple present tiezes, present participle tiezing, simple past and past participle tiezed)

1. Obsolete form of tease.
   • 1719, The High-German Doctor. To Which Is Added, a Large Appendix, with an Explanatory Index., volume II, London: […] J. Roberts, […], page 17:

     HE is always Tiezing me to be quiet, and paſs over his Parricide, because the Fourth Edition of the White Staff does not clear up his Character.

   • 1747, William Stith, The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: Being an Essay Towards a General History of This Colony, Williamsburg, Va.: […] William Parks, page 227:

     From thence he often pelted and tiezed the Company, with an extravagant Demand for his Uncle’s Adventure; […]

   • 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:

     Tiezed by the unfeeling manner in which he gave this advice, and by its importunate repetition, Madame D’Alberg anſwered at length that ſhe was very glad he had diſcovered the efficacy of this entire reſignation, and truſted it would prevent his feeling in future any alarms, whatever might arrive.