tieze

present singular third person tiezes · participle present tiezing · participle past tiezed · past tiezed

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of tease.

   From thence he often pelted and tiezed the Company, with an extravagant Demand for his Uncle’s Adventure; […]

   1747, William Stith, The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: Being an Essay Towards a General History of This Colony, Williamsburg, Va.: […] William Parks, page 227

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   HE is always Tiezing me to be quiet, and paſs over his Parricide, because the Fourth Edition of the White Staff does not clear up his Character.

   1719, The High-German Doctor. To Which Is Added, a Large Appendix, with an Explanatory Index., volume II, London: […] J. Roberts, […], page 17

   Tiezed by the unfeeling manner in which he gave this advice, and by its importunate repetition, Madame D’Alberg anſwered at length that ſhe was very glad he had diſcovered the efficacy of this entire reſignation, and truſted it would prevent his feeling in future any alarms, whatever might arrive.

   1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages 6–7