scandalise

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See also: scandalisé

English

Etymology

From scandal +‎ -ise.

Verb

scandalise (third-person singular simple present scandalises, present participle scandalising, simple past and past participle scandalised)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of scandalize.
    • 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. , London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page ix:
      He never greatly cared for the society of what are called good people. If any of these were scandalised (and offences were sure to arise), he could not help it.
    • 2023 May 31, “Open Access: On-train table manners”, in RAIL, number 984, page 63:
      She was scandalised by my suggestion that she should have bought the other three seats, in order to use the table as an office space. Her solution was that I should go and sit elsewhere. Her appeal to the ticket inspector/guard was rebuffed in short order.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

scandalise

  1. inflection of scandaliser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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