Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To write in the style of Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson; report or reproduce with minuteness of detail or without the exercise of the critical faculty.

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Examples

  • Some of the tough words in the bee, ekat (ph), ziphius and boswellize.

    CNN Transcript May 31, 2006 2006

  • For to _boswellize_ (which is a verb that has gone into our dictionaries) means not merely to transcribe faithfully the acts and moods and import of a man's life; it implies also that the man so delineated be a good man and a great.

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • These people have no fine arts, no literature, no great men to boswellize, no fine speculation to entertain their family board or their solitary toil with.

    The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879

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