schillerize

present singular third person schillerizes · participle present schillerizing · participle past schillerized · past schillerized · alternative schillerise

1. To change so as to produce a metalic luster.

   The felspar is strikingly schillerized along from one to five planes of the crystal.

   1886, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 90

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   Thus some pyroxenic minerals are seen to contain numerous enclosures in the form of thin plates and rods arranged along parallel planes in the crystals, these, when the crystals are looked at in certain positions, give it a peculiar semi-metallic lustre or "chatoyant" character, which is termed schillerization, thus diallage and hypersthene are shown to be schillerized forms of augite and enstatite, and Professor Judd observes that "the production of schillerized condition is related to the depth at which the crystals have originally existed; schillerized forms being found only in deep-seated intrusive masses.

   1887, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society - Volume 9, page 170

   The rocks consist of weakly pleoehroic schillerized hypersthene, occurring as anhedral crystals up to a centimetre in length, schillerized diallage, and anhedral crystals of olivine several millimetres long, the fractures in which contain iron ore.

   1958, Bulletin - Malawi Geological Survey Department - Issue 10, page 48

   In outcrop the large elongate feldspars, which schillerize a brilliant sky blue when wet, are consistently oriented between 330 and 360 degrees.

   1986, Geological Fieldwork, page 311

present singular third person Schillerizes · participle present Schillerizing · participle past Schillerized · past Schillerized

1. To interpret or adapt based on the moral and aesthetic philosophy of Friedrich Schiller.

   My intention is not to use Schiller as some kind of fall-guy – there is not a text written today which is not Schillerized.

   2014, Paul McQuillan Martin de Man, Paul De Man Notebooks, page 260

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   Thus Costa gave a lead to all those adapters who have laboured to over-Schillerize the opera, and to eliminate Charles V from it. '

   1971, Atti Del IIo Congresso Internazionale Di Studi Verdiani, page 67

   In 1859 he advises Lassalle to 'Shakespearize' rather than to “Schillerize'. Shakespeare he regards as the supreme poet of the modern world; Schiller seems to him aesthetically unsound and counter-revolutionary.

   1979, M. Benn, The Drama of Revolt, page 97