v. nonce-wd. [f. Escurial (better Escorial), the name of the chief palace of the Spanish kings, about 30 miles from Madrid.] trans. To subject to influences like those that prevailed at the Escurial.
1843. Tait’s Mag., X. 617. Kings and queens are no longer … puppets to be played with by dexterous mountebanks, or Escurialized into idiotism.
