bovrilize, v.
(ˈbɒvrɪlaɪz)
[f. prec. + -ize.]
trans. To concentrate the essence of; to epitomize, condense.
| 1901 Daily News 11 Jan. 5/1 Here..is one of these ‘bovrilised’ announcements..: Wanted, Sit. as Comp. by Eng. lady, 35; good Fr.; good refs.; would trav. R.R., 100. 1902 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 8/7 He must give us not life, but the essence of it—a bovrilised version, as it were. 1902 Academy 13 Dec. 655/2 His fondness for bovrilising thought..into so small a compass of words that the sentences are really too ‘meaty’. 1928 Musical Times Nov. 1003 The exercises..are short enough not to fatigue the attention, and they bovrilise the difficulties or virtues admirably. |