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Definition of Similize
1. v. t. To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.
Definition of Similize
1. Verb. (transitive) To liken; to compare. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Similize
1. similise [v SIMILIZED, SIMILIZING, SIMILIZES] - See also: similise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Similize
Literary usage of Similize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... to parallel the lives of either sort, that we may, in some measure, discern
truth from falsehood, and in speaking I shall similize their lives. i. ..."
2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1832)
"... to parallel the lives of either sort, that we may in some measure discern
truth from falsehood; and in speaking I shall similize their lives ;—1st, ..."
3. The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches by William Hazlitt, Great Britain Parliament (1810)
"I shall only parallel and similize my actions, since the sitting of this parliament
with these articles : 1st. Mr. Speaker, if to vote with the parliament ..."
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