philippize

present singular third person philippizes · participle present philippizing · participle past philippized · past philippized

1. archaichistoricalTo support or advocate the cause of Philip of Macedon; (more generally) to speak as someone who has been wrongly inspired or corrupted.First known use 16th c.

   I know they set him up as a sort of oracle; because, with the best intentions in the world, he naturally philippizes, and chaunts his prophetic song in exact unison with their designs.

   1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 11

present singular third person philippizes · participle present philippizing · participle past philippized · past philippized

1. obsoleteTo write or speak in the style of a philippic; to rant.First known use 19th c.

   I feel tempted, just here, to philippize the press. It needs castigation, but this will never prove effective, because a portion of the evil lies in the popular appetite.

   1864, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine