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English
Verb
teize (third-person singular simple present teizes, present participle teizing, simple past and past participle teized)
- Obsolete form of tease.
1790, “Domestic Literature of the Year 1789”, in The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1789. , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, , page 279, column 1:[…] “Subjects for Painters,” in which, with his uſual ſucceſs, he laughs at, or teizes the Royal Academicians; […]
1798, Helen Maria Williams, A Tour in Switzerland; or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris, volume I, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, , pages 328–329:Its ſiſter, […], ſtood patiently at the ſide of its cradle, with a large vine-branch in her hand, which ſhe waved backwards and forwards to prevent the numerous flies, that noon brings forth in that country, from teizing the ſick child.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: , volume III, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 181–182:I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well she may, with moving the queen of a palace, though the king may appear best in the back ground, and as I have no desire to teize her, I shall never force your name upon her again.