v. rare. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. To apply an epithet to.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 214. The foremention’d very false Son of the Church, that dar’d Epithetize him with that insolent Character.
1809. Month. Mag., XXVIII. 189. The images of (as he epithetizes them) scabby Job, blind Tobit [etc.].
