Timonize

== English == === Alternative forms === Timonise === Etymology === From Timon +‎ -ize, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used intransitively by William Darrell in his book The Gentleman Instructed (1713), and transitively by Herman Melville in his novel Pierre (1852). === Verb === Timonize (third-person singular simple present Timonizes, present participle Timonizing, simple past and past participle Timonized) (intransitive) To behave as a misanthrope. 1713, William Darrell, The Gentleman Instructed, 5th edition: I should be tempted to Timonize, and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species. (transitive) To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism. 1983, Michael L. Ross, "Lawrence's letters", in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, volume 3, number 1 (Summer 1983), page 58: Lawrence's progressive alienation from his countrymen and finally from humanity – as it were, the "Timonizing" process that overcame him – went hand in hand with his estrangement from Russell. ==== Derived terms ==== Timonization Timonizing ==== Related terms ==== Timonian Timonism Timonist ==== Translations ==== === References === OED, "Timon [feat. Timonian, Timonism, Timonist, Timonize]" in the Oxford English Dictionary (reproduced in a post) SEG, "Timonize" in Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (supplement to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps), A supplementary English glossary, 1881 (full text at Archive.org or p. 656 at Google Books) Notes: