Definition of Dorize

1. to become like the Dorians [v DORIZED, DORIZING, DORIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorize

dorgi
dorgis
dorhawk
dorhawks
doric
dorid
doridoid
doridoids
dorids
dories
doris
dorise
dorised
dorises
dorising
dorize (current term)
dorized
dorizes
dorizing
dorkface
dorkfaces
dorkier
dorkiest
dorkified
dorkifies
dorkify
dorkifying
dorkily
dorkiness

Literary usage of Dorize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"Which, if it be true, then those Orphic. fragments, that now we have, (preserved in the writings of such as did not dorize) must a Lib. iv. cap. xxv. p. ..."

2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Which, if it be true, then those Orphic fragments that now we have, (preserved in the writings of such as did not dorize) must have been transformed by them ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"Which, if it be true, then those Orphic fragments, that now we have, (preserved in the writings of such as did not dorize) must have been transformed by ..."

4. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1866)
"... I dorize. Olis. 2. The active form however is sometimes used where we should expect the middle, as Thuc. ..."

5. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1881)
"... I dorize. Obs. i. The active form however is sometimes used where we should expect the middle, as Thuc. ..."

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