facialize

Verb

facialize (third-person singular simple present facializes, present participle facializing, simple past and past participle facialized)

1. (rare) To put a face to; to give a face.
   • Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […]1992, Orientalism and cultural differences, page 30
   • Likewise, this trend in the public sphere to put "faces" on social problems has the paradoxical effect of making the faces generic and not individual: thus the facializing gesture that promotes identification across the spaces of alterity is, in effect, an equivocal challenge to shift the political...1996, Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies, →ISBN, page 435
2. (rare) To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.)
   • The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […]2008, Stuart Kane, “The Green Man and the Facial Machine”, in Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern, page 43
   • Second, it enables us to see landscape as facial, that is, to naturalize the face or facialize nature.2013, Seung-hoon Jeong, Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media, →ISBN, page 168
3. (rare) To give a facial (sex act) to.
   • Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized2006 September 27, cha...@hushmail.com, “Hardcore indian sex, Brittney skye facial cum, Monica sweetheart enjoys slurping”, in alt.sex.nfs (Usenet)
   • Yeah, you blew it with America 's sweetheart, but guys like us really only want to deflower, defile, sodomize, and facialize a good-girl sweetheart anyway.2011, Steve Coney, Gardening With Napalm, →ISBN, page 102
4. (rare) To give a facial (personal beauty treatment) to.
   • […] a manicure and, if time permits, a pedicure. I'm lying on the elevated table in one of the private rooms waiting for Helga, the skin technician, to facialize me.1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 114