fustianize

present singular third person fustianizes · participle present fustianizing · participle past fustianized · past fustianized

1. datedintransitiveTo write or utter pretentious statements.

   What is a poet's love? — / To write a girl a sonnet, / To get a ring, or some such thing, / And fustianize upon it.

   a. 1894, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet's Lot

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   When they talk war they amuse the soldier and when they fustianize about advertising, they make such statements as, “Advertising Is Literature" or “Advertising is the greatest force in modern business," which it is not.

   1915, Marketing Communications, volume 92, page 11