Attitudinize
to -ssume ; pose for effect.
historical examples
then ma, seizing a sword, began to att-tudinize, smearing his face all over with coal-dust.
strange stories from a chinese studio vol. ii (of 2) songling pu
ma then got up and began to att-tudinize, singing a plaintive air like the girls with the turbans.
strange stories from a chinese studio vol. ii (of 2) songling pu
a jay would alight in the entrance of the hole and flirt and peer and att-tudinize, and then flyaway crying “thief, thief, thief!”
birds and bees, sharp eyes and, other papers john burroughs
a bird seldom sings when watched, and nature is no coquette, and will not ogle and att-tudinize when stared at.
our friend john burroughs clara barrus
he was compelled the while to att-tudinize incessantly as a genius.
art in england dutton cook
verb
(intransitive) to adopt a pose or opinion for effect; strike an att-tude
v.
1784, from att-tudinal + -ize. related: att-tudinized; att-tudinizing.
Read Also:
- Attius
lucius, . historical examples to this festival there came, at the bidding of attius, a great company of the volscians. stories from livy alfred church how attius would receive him he knew not; but he was homeless, and had now only his enemies to trust. historic tales, volume 11 (of 15) charles morris to these […]
- Attlee
clement (richard) 1883–1967, british statesman: prime minister 1945–51. noun clement richard, 1st earl attlee. 1883–1967, british statesman; prime minister (1945–51); leader of the labour party (1935–55). his government inst-tuted the welfare state, with extensive nationalization
- Atto-
a combining form that enters into compounds denoting a unit one-quintillionth (10 −18) the size of the unit named by the stem. prefix denoting 10–18: attotesla, a word-forming element meaning “one quintillionth,” 1962, from danish atten “eighteen” (a quintillion is 10 to the 18th power), related to old english eahtatene (see eighteen). atto- pref. one […]
- Attolaser
noun a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- Attoparsec
attop-rs-c unit, humour about 31 mm (one inch). “atto-” is the standard si prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. a p-rs-c (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attop-rs-c is thus 3.26 – 10^-18 light years. thus, one attop-rs-c per microfortnight is about one inch per second. this unit is reported to be in use (though probably not […]