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English
Etymology
From monogram + -ize.
Verb
monogrammatize (third-person singular simple present monogrammatizes, present participle monogrammatizing, simple past and past participle monogrammatized)
- To make into a monogram.
1855, Charles G Leland, Meister Karl's Sketch-Book, page 93:I know not how often I have had occasion during my life, when speaking of Romanesque or Gothic objects, to employ such adjectives as "odd," "quaint," "weird," "strange," "wild," "freakish," "antique," and "irregular;" but I am very certain that if they could, according to my good old friend Justinus Kerner’s idea of experiences, be concentrated or monogrammatized into a single word, it would be exactly the one needed to describe the rare old town of Nuremberg.
1893, Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society, Transactions - Volumes 18-21, page 52:At one time the rage for combining, inclaving, and contracting was so great that a whole line of Virgil was tortured into a monogram, and it was the common practice in Carolingian and early Imperial diplomas to monogrammatize the royal signature.
1902, Mosher's Magazine:It has already been partially indicated above that the name of Jesus (IHCOVC) was treated by the early Christians in a similar manner to that of Christ : abbreviated and monogrammatized.