v. [f. JOVIAL a. + -IZE.]

1

  1.  trans. To make jovial; to cause to be jolly.

2

1614.  C. Brooke, Leg. Rich. III., vii. Here I began to jouialize my spirit.

3

1780.  Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, 5 June. A spirit, a gaiety, and an activity that jovialised us all.

4

1860.  L. Hunt, Autobiog., xxii. 391. Lamb, whose countenance, a little jovialized, he engrafted upon an active little body.

5

  † 2.  intr. To be jovial, to make merry. Obs.

6

1634.  Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 51. At a great assembly, to feast and jovialize it.

7

1640.  G. Abbott, Job Paraphr., 134. No mens children lead merrier lives than theirs, dancing and joviallizing.

8

a. 1675.  Lightfoot, Rem. (1700), 102. Their wicked inhabitants prospered and jovialized.

9