v. [f. CORDIAL + -IZE.]
1. trans. To make into a cordial.
1774. Pennant, Tour Scot. in 1772, 342. Rum, cordialized with Jelly of bilberries.
1861. Sala, in Temple Bar Mag., I. 304. They hastily swallowed mugs full of steaming egg-hot and cordialised porter.
† 2. To treat with cordials. Obs. rare.
1807. Med. Jrnl., XVII. 43. A state which the unwary would assert to be typhus, and begin … to cordialise.
3. To make cordial or friendly.
1817. Bp. Jebb, in Life & Lett., lxii. 575. Inward religion … congenializes and cordializes human life.
4. intr. To become cordial; to be on terms of cordiality, fraternize (with). Chiefly Sc.
1834. A. Knox, Corr., II. 164. I have not, beyond these walls, one thoroughly congenial soul … I do not know even one, who cordializes with me, on the same intellectual level.
1863. J. Brown, Horæ Subsec. (ed. 3), 62. With devotional feeling … he cordialized wherever and in whomsoever it was found. Ibid. (1864), John Leech (1882), 14. He would have found one student … with whom he would have cordialised.
