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pilgrimize

pilgrimize verb: to wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.

Verb

pilgrimize (third-person singular simple present pilgrimizes, present participle pilgrimizing, simple past and past participle pilgrimized)

  1. (obsolete) To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
    • Fellow Onion, I'll bear thy charges, and thou wilt but pilgrimize it along with me to the land of Utopiac. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the...
    • substantial clothing to use in rough pilgrimizing in the Holy Land1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC

Forms of pilgrimize

third-person singular presentpilgrimizes
present participlepilgrimizing
past participlepilgrimized
pastpilgrimized

Origin of pilgrimize

From pilgrim + -ize.

Questions about pilgrimize

What does pilgrimize mean?
Pilgrimize means to wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
What part of speech is pilgrimize?
Pilgrimize is a verb.
What is the past tense of pilgrimize?
The past tense of pilgrimize is pilgrimized.

Words near pilgrimize in the dictionary

  1. pilgrimise
  2. pilgrimised
  3. pilgrimises
  4. pilgrimising
  5. Pilgrimism
  6. pilgrimize
  7. pilgrimized
  8. pilgrimizes
  9. pilgrimizing
  10. pilgrimless
  11. pilgrimlike

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