▪ I. scandalize, v.1
(ˈskændəlaɪz)
[a. F. scandaliser (OF. escandalisier), ad. eccl. L. scandalizāre, ad. late Gr. σκανδαλίζειν, f. σκάνδαλον: see scandal n. and -ize. Cf. Sp. escandalizar, Pg. escandalisar, It. scandalizzare, scandalezzare.]
† 1. trans. To bruit abroad, make a public scandal of (a discreditable secret). Obs. rare—1.
| c 1489 Caxton Blanchardyn 44 Ye wyll scandalyze & vttre your mysfal that is now happed to you of one man. |
2. To be the occasion of stumbling to; to injure spiritually by one's example. Now rare.
| 1538 Pole Let. 1 Aug. in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxxxiii. 214 But they that scandalize a whole Nation, what shal follow? 1609 Downam Chr. Libertie 78 Thou doest scandalize..thy weake brethren. |
3. To utter false or malicious reports of (a person's) conduct; to slander, to charge slanderously († with). Now somewhat rare. In early use also † to insult, treat with contempt.
| 1566 in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. xlviii. 486 He came thither..to embrace the Truth, which he had for a long time scandalized and rejected. 1606 G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine xx. 77 Let Iustice carry his ballance neuer so euen, the gouernment shall be dispised, the lawes scandalised, religion disdained, authority slandered. 1631 Heywood London's Jus Hon. Ded. to Sheriffs, The Tribunes of the people..are cal'd Sacro Sancti, whose persons might not be iniured, nor their names any way scandaliz'd. 1705 Vanbrugh Confederacy iv. 53 We'll read Verses,..tell Lies, scandalize our Friends. 1790 Pennant London (1813) 499 He was scandalized with suicide. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xxxvi, To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the Order. 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop iv, The company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs. 1865 Intell. Observer No. 42. 412 Scandalise or malign the owl's character. |
b. absol. and intr. To talk scandal.
| 1745 Franklin On Scandal Wks. 1887 II. 27 If to scandalize be really a crime, what do these puppies mean? 1888 Henley Bk. Verses 122 Saving to scrub, to bake, to brew, Nurse, dress, prattle, and scandalize, Nothing is left for the men to do. |
4. trans. To bring shame or discredit upon; to disgrace. Obs. exc. poet.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 91 Nor yet any church scandalized with the wicked liues of their pastors. 1631 Gouge God's Arrows i. §45. 78 To live under the Gospell of Christ, and to live in sinne is..to scandalize the Word of Grace. 1659 Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 438 The Committee thought it reasonable to..adjourn to the Inner Court of Wards, he being scandalized to stand at that bar where he had been judge of the Court. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 32 There's a Beau..going to sell himself to Barbadoes, to keep himself..from Scandalizing his Relations at Tyburn. 1880 Tennyson Columbus 189 We, who bore the Cross Thither, were excommunicated there, For curbing crimes that scandalised the Cross. |
5. To horrify or shock by some supposed violation of morality or propriety.
| 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §42 Others..were more scandalized at so precipitate a Promotion of a person of Such an Education. 1676 North's Plutarch, Add. Lives 90 The Spaniards..had by their filthy behaviour scandalized all the chief inhabitants of the Island. 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 14 He is much scandaliz'd to find any in his Ship out-witting him. 1779 Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 623 The critic is scandalized at the epithets of scanty and suspicious. 1849 James Woodman v, You will scandalise our reverend friend here. 1873 Symonds Gk. Poets iii. 79 The prudes of antiquity were scandalized at Solon, for having penned some amorous verses of very questionable character. |
▪ II. scandalize, v.2 Naut.
(ˈskændəlaɪz)
[Alteration of scantelize, assimilated to prec. Cf. scantle v. 4.]
trans. To reduce the area of (a sail) by lowering the peak and tricing up the tack.
| 1862 ‘Vanderdecken’ Yacht Sailor 18 Keep your peak standing, or scandalise the mainsail. 1867 N. & Q. 28 Sept. 260/2 Scandalising a Sail. This phrase is neither very new, nor confined to Thanet. It was in common use among Cornish sailors fully forty years ago. |
Hence ˈscandalized ppl. a.2
| 1893 Clark Russell Ida Noble 205 We reduced the schooner down to what is termed a scandalised mainsail and a jib. |