palliardize

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of palliardise (“lechery”).

present singular third person palliardizes · participle present palliardizing · participle past palliardized · past palliardized

1. To engage in lechery or lewdness; to fornicate.

   T. Milles in 1619 records that Charlemagne's eldest daughter was found palliardizing (paillardising) with . . . Eginhard, his secretary. A straw shows which way the wind blows.

   1955, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 482

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   Sardanapalus, son to Ocrazapes, Who wallowed in all voluptuousness, – That palliardizing sot that out of doors Ne'er showed his face, but reveled with his whores, Did wear their garbs, their gestures imitate, And […]

   1897, Anne Bradstreet, The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Together with Her Prose Remains, page 94

   My point is not that Donne was rationalizing his own (conjectural) palliardizing; elsewhere he lauds neverending mutuality and obviously he went to great lengths to make such a legally constraining match.

   2013, M. Winkleman, Michael A. Winkelman, A Cognitive Approach to John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, Springer, →ISBN

   Tonight, for instance, now that Bert has been here, I listen to the piercing screams of palliardizing cats without self-pity. Another of these “posthumous” poems, “Glad,” written in 1965, was a second-person address […]

   2017, Edward Mendelson, Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 677