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Definition of Gorgonized
1. gorgonize [v] - See also: gorgonize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorgonized
Literary usage of Gorgonized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"Maud's lover in Tennyson was gorgonized 'with a stony British stare.' Names of
tribes or nations have often become common nouns, usually in a sense ..."
2. Southey by Edward Dowden (1880)
"Ma'am Powell was old and grim, and with her lashless eyes gorgonized the new
pupil; on the seizure of her hand he woke to rebellion, kicking lustily, ..."
3. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"As Crocker has well put it, when the face is affected it is gorgonized, so to
speak, both to the eye and to the touch. The mouth cannot be opened ; the lids ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... head had frozen them where they stood, and at the hour at which I write the
last one gorgonized by this monstrous glance is the poor King of Greece, ..."
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