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Elizabethanise

Elizabethanise is the alternative form of Elizabethanize.

Meaning of Elizabethanize

Verb

Elizabethanize (third-person singular simple present Elizabethanizes, present participle Elizabethanizing, simple past and past participle Elizabethanized)

  1. To make more Elizabethan.
    • Then after a fortnight's holiday the Players started to Elizabethanize their building.1923, Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts - Volume 7, page 210

Forms of Elizabethanise

third-person singular presentElizabethanises
present participleElizabethanising
past participleElizabethanised
pastElizabethanised

Questions about Elizabethanise

What is Elizabethanise the alternative form of?
Elizabethanise is the alternative form of Elizabethanize.

Words near Elizabethanise in the dictionary

  1. Elizabethan collars
  2. Elizabethan English
  3. Elizabethan sonnet
  4. Elizabethan sonnets
  5. Elizabethana
  6. Elizabethanise
  7. Elizabethanised
  8. Elizabethanises
  9. Elizabethanising
  10. Elizabethanism
  11. Elizabethanisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Elizabethanise (page history and authors); Elizabethanize (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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