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verbLatinise (third-person singular simple present Latinises, present participle Latinising, simple past and past participle Latinised)
present singular third person Latinises · participle present Latinising · participle past Latinised · past Latinised
- UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of Latinize.
To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.
1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] VIII. That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 239
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Latinise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Latinise
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Latinise,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Latinise.
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