Etymology

From antic +‎ -izeCategory:English terms suffixed with -ize#ANTICIZE.

Verb

anticize (third-person singular simple present anticizes, present participle anticizing, simple past and past participle anticized)Category:English lemmas#ANTICIZECategory:English verbs#ANTICIZECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANTICIZECategory:Pages with entries#ANTICIZECategory:Pages with 1 entry#ANTICIZE

1. (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#ANTICIZE, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ANTICIZE) To perform antics.
   • 1871, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau:

     Could the orb sweep those puny particles
     It just half-lights at distance, hardly leads
     I' the leash — sweep out each speck of them from space
     They anticize in with their days and nights […]

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   • 1966, The Music Journal, volume 24, page 79:

     Most musicians are convinced that this kind of information is designed for doctors and dentists, whom they regard as hopelessly addicted to stereophonic anticizing, right down to locomotive and automobile noises.

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