palliardize

palliardize is the alternative form of palliardise.

Meaning of palliardise

palliardise (uncountable)

(obsolete) Fornication, lechery.
- Nothing […] more weakeneth an Armye than luxuritie and palliardize.1591, Lodge, Diogenes, page 46

palliardize (third-person singular simple present palliardizes, present participle palliardizing, simple past and past participle palliardized)

To engage in lechery or lewdness; to fornicate.
- Sardanapalus, son to Ocrazapes, Who wallowed in all voluptuousness, – That palliardizing sot that out of doors Ne'er showed his face, but reveled with his whores, Did wear their garbs, their gestures imitate, And […]1897, Anne Bradstreet, The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Together with Her Prose Remains, page 94
- T. Milles in 1619 records that Charlemagne's eldest daughter was found palliardizing (paillardising) with . . . Eginhard, his secretary. A straw shows which way the wind blows.1955, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 482

third-person singular present	palliardizes
present participle	palliardizing
past participle	palliardized
past	palliardized

From palliard + -ize.

What does palliardize mean?: Palliardize means to engage in lechery or lewdness; to fornicate.
What is palliardize the alternative form of?: Palliardize is the alternative form of palliardise.
What part of speech is palliardize?: Palliardize is a verb.
What is the past tense of palliardize?: The past tense of palliardize is palliardized.

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