fustianizing

Verb

fustianize (third-person singular simple present fustianizes, present participle fustianizing, simple past and past participle fustianized)

1. (dated, intransitive) To write or utter pretentious statements.
   • What is a poet's love? — / To write a girl a sonnet, / To get a ring, or some such thing, / And fustianize upon it.a. 1894, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet's Lot