Newmanize

Verb

Newmanize (third-person singular simple present Newmanizes, present participle Newmanizing, simple past and past participle Newmanized)

1. (derogatory) To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation.
   • To grunt and sweat under a weary load does perfectly well where it comes in Shakspeare: but if the translator of Homer, who will hardly have wound up our minds to the pitch at which these words of Hamlet find them, were to employ, when he has to speak of Homer's heroes under the load of calimity...1862, Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer: Last Words
   • Mr. Way, in fact, is a little inclined to "Newmanize"—a fault which we hoped Mr. Matthew Arnold had long ago crushed. Pure English of the simple sort is amply sufficient for the translating of Homer, as has been abundantly proved by the "Variorum" prose translations of the Odyssey and Iliad; there...1886 April 10, “The Iliad of Homer”, in The Athenæum, number 3050, page 483