Obs. In 7 frettish. [Connected with OF. fraitis (Godef.), said of capitals of columns, and app. rendering ‘quasi in modum retis’ in 1 Kings vii. 17. Cf. FRET sb.1, v.2
If this be a pa. pple., the Eng. vb. is prob. ad. OF. *fraitiss-, *fraitir. If it be an adj.:—L. type ? *fracticius, the Eng. vb. is prob. formed upon it.]
trans. = FRET v.2 Hence † Fretized ppl. a., † Fretizing vbl. sb.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1676), 36. The fretised seelings curiously wrought.
1601. in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 260. Payde also vnto Cobbe for frettishinge the gallerie and the great chamber 30li.
1606. Breton, Sydney’s Ourania, ii.
| I saw how that the sacred Nymph came downe | |
| In purple robe with starres yfretized. | |
| Ibid., xvi. | |
| A Carkanet most pretious and rare, | |
| Fretized with Carbuncles. |
1626. T. H[awkins], trans. Caussin’s Holy Crt., 85. The hand thereof, is this goodly, and beautifull embowed frettizing of the heauenly Orbes, which we behold with our eyes.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. lii. 429. Angiports … frettized and embowed Seelings.
1703. T. S., Arts Improv., I. 43. By this means, you may Counterfeit to the Life, all sorts of Marble, having a little Experience in Colours; and make also all sort of Work; as Frettized work, Flat-Work, Ovals. &c.
