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macarise

macarise is the alternative form of macarize.

Meaning of macarize

Verb

macarize (third-person singular simple present macarizes, present participle macarizing, simple past and past participle macarized)

  1. (dated, formal, transitive) To congratulate or laud; to pronounce blessed or happy.
    • Couldn't I now say that “happy” is not used to describe things, but when I call someone happy I'm really doing this other thing, pragmatically I'm macarizing him?2013, Bernd Prien, David P. Schweikard, Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist, page 192

Forms of macarise

third-person singular presentmacarises
present participlemacarising
past participlemacarised
pastmacarised

Questions about macarise

What is macarise the alternative form of?
Macarise is the alternative form of macarize.

Words near macarise in the dictionary

  1. Macari
  2. Macaria
  3. Macarian
  4. macariid
  5. macariids
  6. macarise
  7. macarised
  8. macarises
  9. macarising
  10. macarism
  11. macarisms

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