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Palladianize

Palladianize verb: to erect or remodel in the style of the Palladian school of architecture.

Verb

Palladianize (third-person singular simple present Palladianizes, present participle Palladianizing, simple past and past participle Palladianized)

  1. To erect or remodel in the style of the Palladian school of architecture.
    • This ‘building’ was probably nothing more than Palladianizing the windows.1899, Herbert Hurst, Oxford Topography: An Essay, Oxford: […] [T]he Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press, page 112
    • Noticeably few of their buildings appear in the great eighteenth-century architectural pantechnica: Francis Smith’s prime came perhaps a little late for Vitruvius Britannicus, and in any case his houses were not of a kind to supply ammunition for Campbell’s palladianizing campaigns; by the time of...2000, Andor Gomme, Smith of Warwick: Francis Smith, Architect and Master-Builder, Shaun Tyas, →ISBN, page viii

Forms of Palladianize

third-person singular presentPalladianizes
present participlePalladianizing
past participlePalladianized
pastPalladianized

Origin of Palladianize

From Palladian + -ize.

Questions about Palladianize

What does Palladianize mean?
Palladianize means to erect or remodel in the style of the Palladian school of architecture.
What part of speech is Palladianize?
Palladianize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Palladianize?
The past tense of Palladianize is Palladianized.

Words near Palladianize in the dictionary

  1. palladia
  2. palladian
  3. Palladian window
  4. Palladian windows
  5. Palladianism
  6. Palladianize
  7. palladianized
  8. Palladianizes
  9. Palladianizing
  10. Palladians
  11. palladic

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