† ˈscantelize, v. Obs.
[f. scantle n. + -ize. Cf. scandalize v.2]
trans. To shorten, curtail.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. iii. §22. 18 By which account the great supposed antiquity of Brute, is now lessened by seuen hundred fiftie and two yeares; and the time so scantelized betwixt his and Cesars entrance, that two hundred forty six yeares onely remaine. |