Grammar
- Random-ise: Congreve's The Way Of The World, -ize And -ise Verbs
This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page. ...
- Random-ised Thoughts: -ize Verbs And -ise Verbs - The Basics
There is a large group of transitive verbs formed from nouns or adjectives which have a suffix with the sound /aɪz/. In American English these are always spelt with an -ize ending, but the standard position in British English is that they...
- Random-ise: Milton's Paradise Lost, -ize And -ise Verbs
This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page. John...
- Random-ised Thoughts - Tristram Shandy, -ize And -ise Verbs
This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page. ...
- Thackeray's Use Of -ise/-ize Verbs In Vanity Fair
In which I list all the instances of this type of verb in Mr. Thackeray's fine work and note certain inconsistencies in the spelling thereof, and do the same for Mr. Darwin and his Origin of Species. Background This is part of an investigation...
Grammar
Random-ise: Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, -ize and -ise verbs
"Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604, was the first single-language English dictionary ever published. It lists approximately 3000 words, defining each one with a simple and brief description. A number of the words listed in the 'Table Alphabeticall' were thought of as 'hard' - or unfamiliar to the general public - as they were derived from foreign or ancient languages such as Hebrew, Greek, Latin or French."
- British Library
This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page.
Robert Cawdrey - A Table Alphabeticall 1601
- Wikipedia
- E-version of 1604 edition - University Of Toronto
In the main listing the dictionary lists 12 -ize suffix verbs and 10 French -ise verbs .Note that he spells some -ize suffix verbs with a z, and some with an s
| Suffix -ize verbs | French -ise verbs |
| canonise | aduertise |
| catechiser | affranchise |
| epitomise | circumcise |
| equalize | disfranchised |
| gargarise | disguised |
| methodized | enfranchise |
| particularize | enterprise |
| patronise | franchise |
| scandalize | miguionise |
| solemnize | surprise |
| temporise | |
| tiranize |
A note on miguionise
All Google searches seem to lead back to this dictionary.
Showing all instances of -ize and -ise as shown in the main listing
- [fr] = of French origin
- (g) = of Greek origin
| [fr] aduertise, giue knowledge, aduise, or coun- sell: |
| [fr] affranchise, set at libertie. |
| canonise, (g) make a saint, to examine by rule: |
| catechiser, that teacheth the principles of Christian religion. |
| circumcise, to cut the priuie skin |
| [fr] disfranchis, take away freedome: |
| [fr] disguised, counterfeited, seeming that it is not: |
| [fr] enfranchise, make free |
| [fr] enterprise, beginne, take in |
| epitomise, (g) to make an epitome, or to bring a booke into a lesser volume. |
| equalize, match, or make equall |
| gargarise, to wash the mouth, and throate |
| methodized, (g) brought into order |
| [fr] miguionise, play the wanton: |
| particularize, to deuide into parts, and to handle euery particuler. |
| patronise, defend |
| scandalize, (g) to offend, or giue occasion, to mislike |
| solemnize, to doe a thing with great pompe, reuerence, or deuotion |
| [fr] surprise, to come vpon, and vnawares, and to take of a suddaine. |
| temporise, to serue the time, or to followe the fashions, and behauiour of the time. |
| tiranize, vse crueltie |
Cawdrey also uses the word baptiser in the definitions (for baptist), but does not include the verb baptize in the main listings
He also uses the words: advise, comprise, despise, devise, exercise and unadvised in the definitions, but doesn't include them in the listings
Links
- British Library
- Everything2.com
- The History of English Dictionaries Blog
- Birmingham City University
- Scholarly article
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- Random-ise: Congreve's The Way Of The World, -ize And -ise Verbs
This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page. ...
- Random-ised Thoughts: -ize Verbs And -ise Verbs - The Basics
There is a large group of transitive verbs formed from nouns or adjectives which have a suffix with the sound /aɪz/. In American English these are always spelt with an -ize ending, but the standard position in British English is that they...
- Random-ise: Milton's Paradise Lost, -ize And -ise Verbs
This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page. John...
- Random-ised Thoughts - Tristram Shandy, -ize And -ise Verbs
This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page. ...
- Thackeray's Use Of -ise/-ize Verbs In Vanity Fair
In which I list all the instances of this type of verb in Mr. Thackeray's fine work and note certain inconsistencies in the spelling thereof, and do the same for Mr. Darwin and his Origin of Species. Background This is part of an investigation...