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schillerize

schillerize verb: to change so as to produce a metalic luster.

schillerize: to change so as to produce a metalic luster
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Verb (1)

schillerize (third-person singular simple present schillerizes, present participle schillerizing, simple past and past participle schillerized)

  1. To change so as to produce a metalic luster.
    • The felspar is strikingly schillerized along from one to five planes of the crystal.1886, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 90
    • Thus some pyroxenic minerals are seen to contain numerous enclosures in the form of thin plates and rods arranged along parallel planes in the crystals, these, when the crystals are looked at in certain positions, give it a peculiar semi-metallic lustre or "chatoyant" character, which is termed...1887, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society - Volume 9, page 170

Verb (2) capitalized: Schillerize

Schillerize (third-person singular simple present Schillerizes, present participle Schillerizing, simple past and past participle Schillerized)

  1. To interpret or adapt based on the moral and aesthetic philosophy of Friedrich Schiller.
    • Thus Costa gave a lead to all those adapters who have laboured to over-Schillerize the opera, and to eliminate Charles V from it. '1971, Atti Del IIo Congresso Internazionale Di Studi Verdiani, page 67
    • In 1859 he advises Lassalle to 'Shakespearize' rather than to “Schillerize'. Shakespeare he regards as the supreme poet of the modern world; Schiller seems to him aesthetically unsound and counter-revolutionary.1979, M. Benn, The Drama of Revolt, page 97

Forms of schillerize

third-person singular presentschillerizes
present participleschillerizing
past participleschillerized
pastschillerized
alternative formschillerise
third-person singular presentSchillerizes
present participleSchillerizing
past participleSchillerized
pastSchillerized

Origin of schillerize

From schiller + -ize.

From Schiller + -ize after Friedrich Schiller.

Questions about schillerize

What does schillerize mean?
Schillerize means to change so as to produce a metalic luster.
What part of speech is schillerize?
Schillerize is a verb.
What is the past tense of schillerize?
The past tense of schillerize is schillerized.

Words near schillerize in the dictionary

  1. schillerises
  2. schillerising
  3. schillerite
  4. schillerization
  5. schillerizations
  6. schillerize
  7. schillerized
  8. schillerizes
  9. schillerizing
  10. schillers
  11. schilling

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