v. rare. [f. L. color or Eng. COLOUR + -IZE.] trans. To color. Hence Colorizing vbl. sb. & ppl. a.

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1611.  Florio, Muffola, a kinde of colour that Goldsmiths vse to colourise mettals.

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c. 1865.  J. Wylde, in Circ. Sci., I. 140/1. Light … has a colourising … effect.

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