v. rare. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]

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  † I.  intr. To utter malicious accusations; to slander, calumniate. Obs.

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1634.  Bp. Reynolds, Shieldes of Earth (1636), 32. The Accuser … doth not informe, but sycophantize and calumniate.

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  2.  To deal in mean or servile flattery. Hence Sycophantizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

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1605.  G. Powel, Refut. Epist. Puritan Papist, To Rdr. *2 b. Thus they sycophantize; Puissant Prince and orient Monarch.

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1631.  R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, xviii. 321. By Sycophantizing and observance, he might have beene a Favorite to Alexander.

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1640.  Bastwick, Lord Bps., App. L 3. His flattering and Sycophantising Prelates.

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1709.  Sacheverell, Serm., 15 Aug., 8. Scycophantizing Flattery.

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1830.  Fraser’s Mag., I. 158. Dr Bowring should not sycophantise.

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