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Definition of Adonizing
1. adonize [v] - See also: adonize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adonizing
Literary usage of Adonizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"When within half a mile of the house, he rode aside into a thick wood for the
purpose of adonizing, as he had often done on the same spot. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"He was adonizing before a large mirror, and combing up my whiskers at a devil of
a rate. '' Ah! there you are, old fellow,' said he, speaking to my ..."
3. Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman, Major-general, U.S.A., and by John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne (1860)
"Thus this accomplished tactician, while adonizing before his looking- glass,1
and toying with the square-rigged belles of Albany, or the more voluptuous ..."
4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1828)
"... too, conjugally reposed upon the hearth : all indicated that his friend had
since breakfast returned to complete the operation of ' adonizing, ..."
5. The Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature by Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom (1833)
"His friend objected to deprive him of so necessary an appendage of the adonizing
art, remarking that he would not be able to get on his shoes without it. ..."
6. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"When within half a mile of the hou?e, he rode aside into a thick wood, for the
purpose of adonizing, as he had often done on the same spot The ground was ..."
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