GRANDISONIZE

PRONUNCIATION: (gran-DIS-uh-nyz)

MEANING verb tr.: To escort in a courteous manner.

ETYMOLOGY: After Sir Charles Grandison, the model gentleman hero of Samuel Richardson’s 1753 novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Earliest documented use: 1824.
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GRAND IS ON ICE - a thousand dollars is safely put away

GRANDISONIAZE - make the anti-Tb drug super-potent

GRANDIOSONIZE - afflict with inflated ideas of self-importance