v. [see -IZE.] trans. To make cheerful. Hence Cheerfulizing.
1833. Sarah Austin, Charact. Goethe, II. 257. My journey … has cheerfullized my existence.
1845. E. Warburton, Crescent & Cross, II. 76. A mean, straggling town, without fortification, but surrounded with gardens and olive-groves, that cheerfullize it.
1850. T. T. Lynch, Theoph. Trinal, v. 84. The wines of cheerfullizing pleasure are serviceable. Ibid., xi. 208. The flower-cup wine of comfort giveth … Wine to cheerfulize and cure.
