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Timonised

Timonised

English

Verb

Timonised

  1. Alternative spelling of Timonized simple past tense and past participle of Timonise
    • 1923, British English ed. of Herman Melville, Pierre:[1]
      And it may well be believed, that after the wonderful vital world-revelation so suddenly made to Pierre at the Meadows—a revelation which, at moments, in some certain things, fairly Timonised him—he had not failed to clutch with peculiar nervous detestation and contempt that ample parcel, containing the letters of his Biographico and other silly correspondents, which, in a less ferocious hour, he had filed away as curiosities.

References

  1. British English ed. of Herman Melville, Pierre (orig. 1852), chapter XVII "Young America in Literature", part III, in The Works of Herman Melville: Standard Edition, Vol. 9, London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1923, p. 357 at Google Books.