teize

present singular third person teizes · participle present teizing · participle past teized · past teized

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of tease.

   […] “Subjects for Painters,” in which, with his uſual ſucceſs, he laughs at, or teizes the Royal Academicians; […]

   1790, “Domestic Literature of the Year 1789”, in The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1789. […], London: […] G. G. J. and J. Robinson, […], page 279, column 1

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   Its ſiſter,[…], ſtood patiently at the ſide of its cradle, with a large vine-branch in her hand, which ſhe waved backwards and forwards to prevent the numerous flies, that noon brings forth in that country, from teizing the ſick child.

   1798, Helen Maria Williams, A Tour in Switzerland; or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris, volume I, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […], pages 328–329

   I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well she may, with moving the queen of a palace, though the king may appear best in the back ground, and as I have no desire to teize her, I shall never force your name upon her again.

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 181–182