harlotize

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To act like a harlot. intransitive
    — It is no extraordinary paradox, That a man may himſelf debauch his own wife, and a woman harlotize with her own huſband.—But this ſubject muſt be touched with great nicety; therefore I ſhall only add, that even our moſt unobſerved behaviour ſhall carry with it ſuch a ſpirit of refinement, as to prevent that vulgar and libidinous degeneracy, which will infallibly blunt the edge of our joys, and in the end pall our reliſh.
  2. To turn into a harlot; to prostitute. transitive
    — […] Yeat too too forcible I feare to be forgot of some, / For slaunder set on foote, though false, is talkatiuely dome. / Malicious (for thy malice is thy matter all in all) / Is it to harlotize, thinkst thou, a Goddesse wrong too small, / But thou must forge it from the Earth, euen from the Sheep-cote? Nay, […]

词形变化

harlotizes present,singular,third-person harlotizing participle,present harlotized participle,past harlotized past harlotise alternative

词源

From harlot + -ize.
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