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ridiculize (三人称単数 現在形 ridiculizes, 現在分詞 ridiculizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 ridiculized)

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-third Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     My heart still trembling, lest the false alarmes
     That words oft strike up should ridiculize me.

参照

• “ridiculize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.