Gothicise

present singular third person Gothicises · participle present Gothicising · participle past Gothicised · past Gothicised

1. transitiveTo make Gothic in style or character.

   Her tales of benevolent ghosts Gothicise everyday domestic space.

   2012, Andrew Smith, Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, page 229

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   Director Burton skillfully mixes aspects of these [traditional horror] films with the emotional naiveté and post-modern chic of contemporary teen-films. This gives us something that resembles a gothicized Sixteen Candles or a monstrous Pretty in Pink.

   1990 December 16, Michael Bronski, “Cutting Up”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 20

   ..He was commissioned to Gothicise the royal apartments at Windsor and to work on William Beckford's house at Fonthill.

   2006, Veronica Ortenberg, In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages

   Music can be a Gothicising factor in the cinema without necessarily being representative of the genre itself: the performativity of musical connotations can cause a Gothicising of the film narrative or imagery.

   2012, Isabella Van Elferen, Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny