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caponise

caponise is the alternative form of caponize.

Meaning of caponize

Verb

caponize (third-person singular simple present caponizes, present participle caponizing, simple past and past participle caponized)

  1. (transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.
    • To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out...1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life...

Forms of caponise

third-person singular presentcaponises
present participlecaponising
past participlecaponised
pastcaponised

Questions about caponise

What is caponise the alternative form of?
Caponise is the alternative form of caponize.

Words near caponise in the dictionary

  1. caponiid
  2. caponiids
  3. caponing
  4. caponioid
  5. caponioids
  6. caponise
  7. caponised
  8. caponises
  9. caponising
  10. caponization
  11. caponizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caponise (page history and authors); caponize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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