Gothicize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Gothicize
First recorded in 1740–50; Gothic ( def. ) + -ize
Example Sentences
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No. This clerical rake would, if he could, Gothicize this nation of freemen.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
New York work of the firm includes the Colony, Brook and Knickerbocker Clubs, the slightly Gothicized Wall Street 'scraper of Brown Bros.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The train stopped and I found the Bouton station, small and neatly built, of a gray stone, with deeply overhanging roof and Gothicized windows.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford
If they were Romanized, she was Gothicized and Gaulicized.
From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West
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